Help Wanted: Twelve virtual "astronauts"

The selected candidates will precipitate in a simulated trip to Mars. Although the positions require a full time commitment this is to be considered a part time job. Successful candidates will be paid 158 dollars pr day. It job will last for 520 days.
Candidates will spend the 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth comprise a series of interlocked modules. They will face simulated emergencies, daily work routines and experiments, as well as boredom and, no doubt, personal friction from confinement in just 550 cubic metres (19,250 cubic feet), the equivalent of nine truck containers.
The test will be conducted in near total isolation. Once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut off from all contact with the outside world except by a delayed radio link. Communications with the simulated mission control and loved-ones will take up to 40 minutes, the time that a radio signal takes to cross the void between Earth and a spaceship on Mars.
Food will comprise mainly the packaged stuff of the kind eaten aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The Job is expected to begin in late 2008 or early 2009.

Men and women who think they have the right stuff can download the application form
here