Captain Xie Beizhen (2nd R) and crew member Wang Minjuan (1st R) of the "Moon Palace 1" hand in plant seeds they cultivated in the enclosed capsule after living in the closed lab for 105 days in Beijing, capital of China, May 20, 2014. Three Chinese volunteers on Tuesday ended an experiment that saw them live for 105 days in an enclosed capsule, eating only laboratory-grown plants and insects. This was China's first manned test of the "Moon Palace 1," a 500-cubic meter module that is China's first and the world's third bioregenerative life support base. (Xinhua/Gong Lei)
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