Mars 500 is an ambitious experiment that was launched in order to test the possibility of sending a crew of cosmonauts to mars by 2030 fortis is the official partner of esa and the russian institute of biomedical problems who are responsible for the project the limited edition b 42 black mars 500 daydate titanium was launched as a result of that collaboration solely 2012 such items are available on the market the watch is equipped with swiss made eta 2836 2 automatic calibre that performs 2