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Live like a Martian: The American space agency NASA is looking for four test subjects who want to live on a fake Mars for a year.
For the CHAPEA mission (short for Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), the selected subjects would live in a habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, which simulates the surface of the red planet. “Mars Dune Alpha” will have separate spaces for living and working. Each of the volunteers would have their own room with work space. There will also be a medical center, recreational lounges and greenhouses for growing food.
Just like on real Mars, resources will be very limited. In addition, the test subjects must take simulated all-round walks, work in the living environment, grow crops and work with robots. To achieve this, ‘stress elements’ such as equipment failure and delayed communications with Earth must be included in the simulation.
The mission will launch in the spring of 2025. Interested parties can register until April 2. We are looking for English-speaking non-smokers who are between 30 and 55 years old and have a university degree in mathematics, science or engineering. Military experience or 1,000 hours of cockpit experience as a pilot are also requirements. The volunteers should be paid for their efforts; NASA has not yet announced how much that is.
Three years ago, the Austrian Space Forum and the Israeli Space Agency simulated conditions for a future trip to Mars in Israel’s Negev Desert. For two weeks, six so-called analogue astronauts lived in their solar-powered ‘Mars station’ in the desert, cut off from the world.
They were only allowed to go outside in their spacesuits, which weighed about 50 kilograms. The analog astronauts tested a prototype drone that works without GPS, as well as autonomous mapping vehicles powered by wind and solar energy. But not only equipment and technologies were tested, but also the behavior of people in this extremely exceptional situation. (jmh/AFP)
Source: Blick
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