                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 5, 1994                   TAG: 9403050174
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: associated press
DATELINE: ORACLE, ARIZ.                                LENGTH: Short

NEW BIOSPHERE 2 CREW TO ENTER ECOLOGICAL LAB

On Sunday, Biosphere 2 embarks on what its operators hope will be the start of 98 years of continuous habitation in the domed ecological laboratory - and the recovery of its image as serious science.

Nearly six months after the first eight-person crew ended a two-year stay inside the lab, the project has been redesigned.

Now, a crew of five men and two women will rotate in and out of the 3-acre glass-and-steel bubble and its 10 apartments. The private, for-profit project is supposed to run like a remote research station. - Associated Press

by CNB