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NASA is opening up its applications for people who want to volunteer for the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) missions to spend a year in a simulated Mars habitat.
To replicate the essence of Mars, the crew will be exposed to environmental stressors such as limited resources, isolation periods, and equipment failures.
As part of preparations for a human mission to Mars, four volunteers have just entered a simulated Mars habitat where they’ll live and work for the next year.
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Wells-Jensen says her blindness didn’t prevent her from becoming an astronaut. Instead, she argues it was the people and culture that surrounded her growing up.
NASA has selected four participants that will undertake the challenge of living in a simulated version of the surface of Mars for an entire year.