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Last broadcast last Tuesday, 13:05 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
Today, astronaut Diego Urbina describes what it was like being locked inside a space capsule in Russia for almost 18 months as part of a simulated trip to Mars.
Also, the Indonesian Muslim who was sent a letter bomb because of his campaign against extremism.
And British woman, Rona Cant, who suddenly took up adventuring in middle age - she started by sailing the wrong way around the world. Rona's book is called Snow, Sleds and Silence: The Story of the Nordkapp Expedition and is published by Libri.
(Image: Diego Urbina. Credit: AFP/Getty)
How will real Mars mission differ from simulation?
Six members of an international crew have come to the end of a gruelling 17-month Mars simulation exercise. But in what ways would a real mission to the Red Planet be different?
Broadcasts
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Mon 5 Dec 201115:32
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Mon 5 Dec 201120:32
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Tue 6 Dec 201100:32
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Tue 6 Dec 201103:32
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Tue 6 Dec 201113:05
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