NASA researchers will simulate a mission by staying a year inside an artificial Mars built in Houston's Johnson Space Center.
Four strangers were picked to live and work together and have their lives studied. Not in the real world, but on a simulated one."Our best wishes go with you as we begin this mission of discovery," said Grace Douglas, principal investigator for the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog mission.For the next year, the four crewmembers will live inside a 1,700-square-foot habitat that was built by a giant 3D printer.
The crew members are not astronauts, but were picked from applications sent in by the general public. They are research scientists, medical doctors, and engineers. Ross Brockwell is a structural engineer in real life who is serving as the flight engineer on the CHAPEA mission. Anca Selaru, a microbiologist in the U.S. Navy, is the mission science officer.
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