Imagine being locked in *** big box with three strangers for more than *** year. Well, you no longer have to imagine it. Business insider reports. An isolated 3D printed Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas has been designed to stimulate the environment in *** year long trip to Mars per NASA. Have *** think about what book you'd pack for the occasion if you're remotely similar to the people at NASA who thought one of those books should be blind descent, it means you're into psychological horrors produced by weeks in absolute darkness. So you're isolated in *** MARS habitat with three other people for 378 days and this is in your library now, claustrophobia seems like one of your more minor issues, right? The site confirms four people, *** scientist, medical officer, biologist and engineer, entered the crew health and performance exploration analog or Chaia Mars June Alpha habitat on Sunday. They'll isolate there together in the 1700 square foot facility for 378 days, experiencing simulated spacewalks, robotic operations, habitat maintenance, personal hygiene exercise and crop growth per NASA.
NASA: 4 volunteers staying in 3D-printed Mars simulation for over a year
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Updated: 12:31 PM CDT Jun 27, 2023
Soon we'll know what life is like on Mars without anyone having to leave Earth.On Sunday, four volunteers — research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and U.S. Navy microbiologist Anca Selariu — started their 378-day stay at a mock-Mars base in Texas. Essentially, they are in a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat meant to mimic a Mars mission, without any influence from the outside world.“The knowledge we gain here will help enable us to send humans to Mars and bring them home safely,” Grace Douglas, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA, said during a briefing.Over the next year, the crew will live like astronauts, conducting simulated spacewalks, growing crops, exercising, doing experiments and handling maintenance work.The only aspect of Mars living they can’t replicate is the gravity difference compared to Earth, which is about 38% of our home planet.Instead, they will recreate Mars' gravity via virtual reality within the facility, testing the volunteers' ability to spacewalk, repair the habitat, and remove dust from their space suits and solar panels.The goal is to help NASA understand what it would be like for humans to live on Mars for extended periods of time. The project is called Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or "CHAPEA."Watch the video above for more on this story.
Soon we'll know what life is like on Mars without anyone having to leave Earth.
On Sunday, four volunteers — research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and U.S. Navy microbiologist Anca Selariu — started their 378-day stay at a mock-Mars base in Texas.
Essentially, they are in a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat meant to mimic a Mars mission, without any influence from the outside world.
“The knowledge we gain here will help enable us to send humans to Mars and bring them home safely,” Grace Douglas, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA, said during a .
Over the next year, the crew will live like astronauts, conducting simulated spacewalks, growing crops, exercising, doing experiments and handling maintenance work.
The only aspect of Mars living they can’t replicate is the gravity difference compared to Earth, which is about 38% of our home planet.
Instead, they will recreate Mars' gravity via virtual reality within the facility, testing the volunteers' ability to spacewalk, repair the habitat, and remove dust from their space suits and solar panels.
The goal is to help NASA understand what it would be like for humans to live on Mars for extended periods of time.
The project is called Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or "CHAPEA."
Watch the video above for more on this story.
