US EditionNASA to Host Crew on Fake Mars Base for a Year
Four volunteers will live inside a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat for 378 days to study health and performance challenges of Mars missions, NASA said.
- On October 19, a team of four volunteers will begin a 378-day mission inside NASA's 158-square-meter Mars Dune Alpha habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, simulating life and work conditions similar to those astronauts would face on Mars.
- This simulation forms part of NASA's CHAPEA mission to replicate Mars conditions including isolation, communication delays, and resource limits to prepare for human exploration planned in the 2030s.
- The crew will engage in activities such as practicing spacewalks, managing robotic systems, maintaining their living environment, staying physically active, cultivating plants, and addressing mental health challenges within the 158-square-meter 3D-printed Mars habitat.
- Mission Commander Kelly Haston emphasized that successfully overcoming the mission's difficulties depended largely on mutual support and the skills they had developed through training, underscoring the critical role of effective communication and teamwork.
- The data collected on physical and cognitive performance will help NASA design successful Mars missions by understanding resource restrictions and long-duration effects on crew health and performance.
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Four volunteers will be confined to a simulated Martian habitat for more than a year, IFLScience reports. The project will begin on October 19 and will last 378 days. 4 photos The experiment is the second part of NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission, and will be followed by another experiment in the program. CHAPEA aims to assess what long-term life on the Red Planet might be like. The crew members will be fic…
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