AdvertisementAccording to CBS, NASA started a new mission called CHAPEA 1 where four non-astronaut volunteers are locked inside a simulated Mars habitat. The group consists of research scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones, and US Navy microbiologist Anca Selariu. They will stay in the Mars simulator, which is made using 3D printing, for a total of 378 days. CBS highlights that the crew has to handle equipment failures, cope with environmental stress, deal with limited resources, perform simulated spacewalks, and grow crops. Let’s face it, most of us struggle with managing exercise and hygiene on a regular basis, and here these volunteers have to do it while being trapped inside a Mars simulator with three other adults for an entire year.

Source: Economic Times June 30, 2023 17:14 UTC