From the «so how's the election going» department:
Title: Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today
Author: Cheyenne MacDonald
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:25:23 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/volunteers-who-lived-in-nasas-mars-simulation-for-over-a-year-will-finally-emerge-today-192522497.html?src=rss
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After 378 days inside a mock Mars habitat, the four volunteers for NASA’s
yearlong simulation of a stay on the red planet are coming home. The crew —
Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones — is scheduled to
exit the 3D-printed habitat in Houston this evening. You can watch the
livestream of their return on NASA TV (below) starting at 5PM ET.

This marks the end of NASA’s first Crew Health and Performance Exploration
Analog (CHAPEA) mission. There are plans already for two more one-year
missions, one of which NASA recently accepted applications for[1].

The Mission 1 crew entered the 1700-square-foot habitat at the Johnson Space
Center on June 25 of last year and has spent the months since conducting
simulated Marswalks, growing vegetables and performing other tasks designed to
support life and work in that environment, like habitat maintenance. No exact
dates for the second CHAPEA mission have been set yet, but it’s expected to
begin in spring 2025.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/volunteers-who-lived-in-nasas-mars-simulation-for-over-a-year-will-finally-emerge-today-192522497.html?src=rss

Links:
[1]: https://www.engadget.com/nasa-is-looking-for-volunteers-to-live-in-its-mars-simulation-for-a-year-172926396.html (link)