CHAPEA 1 simulates year\u002Dlong stay on the red planet for four \u0027analog astronauts\u0027 — minus the low gravity, Mars time and the vacuum of space
The surface of Mars will be this 1,200-square-foot sandbox.that the length of the mission, the first of three, was notable. “We also do analogs in something called HERA, the Human Exploration Research Analog, and our missions there have been 45 days,” she said. “And then we collect data at other analogs, too, with varying lengths, but this will be three, over one-year-long missions, which is a really great extended isolation.
Mission commander Haston is a research scientist studying human disease. Brockwell, a structural engineer, is the crew’s flight engineer. Jones is the medical officer, having been an emergency medicine physician. And Selariu, a microbiologist in the U.S. Navy, is the crew’s science officer. That means that any crew communications will take 22 minutes to reach mission control, duplicating the maximum time for radio waves to travel between Earth and Mars. The crew will be eating freeze-dried, thermo-stablized and shelf-stable foods.Article content
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