For 378 days, the four-member team will live and work inside Mars Dune Alpha.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., Sept. 15, 2023.NASA is offering volunteers an otherworldly experience here on Earth where participants eat, live and communicate as if they were over 200 million miles away in space.
"The idea is, if we were actually going to go to Mars someday, you would have to send that food ahead of time, and you'd have to choose from that selection," Bell said. Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is a series of analog missions that will simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars. Each mission will consist of four crew members living in Mars Dune Alpha, an isolated 1,700 square foot habitat.The CHAPEA crew simulates the Mars-realistic communication delay of up to 22 minutes one way, according to Bell, who says that includes messages to mission control and communication with the crew's friends and family outside of the mission.
"There's a small area, which is still within a confinement bubble, where they can actually go out and do simulated spacewalks as if they're on the Mars surface," Bell said. Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is a series of analog missions that will simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars. Each mission will consist of four crew members living in Mars Dune Alpha, an isolated 1,700 square foot habitat.On top of their Mars research, crew members do roommate activities such as cleaning and cooking, Bell said.
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