In August 2015, scientists planning for a future Mars mission locked a mock crew of six in an isolated, self-contained habitat in Hawaii for a year and monitored what happened under the quarantine-like conditions. It wasn’t pretty. Tensions flared, and rifts formed. What the crew members craved from their living environment was privacy, a place where the sights, sounds and scents of others weren’t constantly intruding on them. The Mars-mission researchers discoveredafter a year what most of us have already figured...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 28, 2020 20:15 UTC