Think you got what it takes to be sent on a mission to Mars, live out your Total Recall fantasies, and start a hydroponics garden with Don Cheadle? Well, tough crap, because the closest you'll likely ever come to such an experience is being crammed into a simulator with a handful of similar lunatics, which is exactly the type of project a special space facility in Moscow is looking for volunteers to partake in.

Researchers are looking for European volunteers to participate in a simulated 520-day Mars mission, which will also include approx 210 days of study time before the actual experiment begins. The team will be made up of a diverse group of international crew members who will have to live and work inside a sealed location, where researchers will monitor the psychological and medical effects of long-duration space missions.The project is being conducted by the ESA and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems (BMP), with hopes that the simulated mission will begin by 2010. Potential candidates should be 20-50, in good health, no taller than 185 cm and motivated. They'll need to be fluent in either English or Russian, and should have a work experience background in either medicine, biology, life support systems engineering, computer engineering, electronic engineering or mechanical engineering.Living in the US and want to sign up? Sorry neighbor, but we're all out of luck. Nationality and residence is being restricted to only include ESA Member States that are participating in ELIPS, which right now includes Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden and Canada. If you somehow fall into this requirements, you can get all the official documents you need at the ESA