NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat
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Despite all decontamination: A fungus from NASA cleanrooms could survive the entire Mars journey – with explosive consequences for space research.
NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat
Members of NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission 2 pose for a group photo. (From left to right: Ellen Ellis, Ross Elder, James Spicer, and Matthew Montgomery) Credit: NASA The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission on May 7. Currently, the crew is in a simulated two‑week loss‑of‑signal period that mimics a Mars-Earth communications blackout when …
The crew of the second iteration of the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) program successfully surpassed 200 days of continuous stay in a pressurized module simulating conditions on the Red Planet. This large-scale NASA experiment is designed to simulate the realistic circumstances of a long-term expedition to Mars, with a total duration of 378 days. The crew consists of four specialists: commander Ross Elder, medical exami…
NASA sterilizes its assembly chambers with protocols worthy of an operating block. Yet, a microscopic intruder slipped between the meshes of the net. NASA's white room fungus has just resisted almost everything that deep space can inflict on a cell. Twenty-seven candidates, only one holding Kasthuri Venkateswaran, microbiologist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cultivated twenty-seven fungal strains taken from the halls where NASA assembled the Mar…
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