Locked on fake Mars with 3 strangers for over a year … any takers?
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00:00NASA just locked four volunteers in a 1,700-square-foot habitat that simulates Mars, and they're
00:06going to be in there for the next 378 days.
00:09Sunday, June 25 marked the start of Mission 1 of NASA's Crew Health and Performance
00:13Exploration Analog, aka CHPEA.
00:16The participants, which include a research scientist, a structural engineer, an emergency
00:20medicine physician, and a microbiologist, were selected from a pool of applicants to
00:24be a part of the first of three simulated Mars missions, each a year long.
00:29The crew members will live and work in the simulated Mars habitat at NASA's Johnson
00:32Space Center in Houston, Texas.
00:34Throughout their stay, the group will participate in crop growth, simulated spacewalks, habitat
00:39maintenance, and science experiments.
00:41They will also face a range of challenges and environmental stressors to simulate a
00:45real-life human mission.
00:46NASA says the goal of the mission is to, quote, assess human health and performance in relation
00:51to Mars-relevant resource limitations in isolation and confinement.