A four-person NASA crew entered a 1,700 square-foot, 3-D simulated Mars habitat in June for a year-long mission.
It's been almost three months since Ross Brockwell and his three crew mates stepped into the Mars Dune Alpha base, a simulation of what a real base will look and feel like on the red planet. Scripps News' caught up with Brockwell in an interview that simulated a real conversation between Earth and Mars. We wondered, how hard is it to pretend you're actually on Mars?
"Otherwise I think it is pretty high fidelity. I mean we are using a lot of some of the real systems at least and the others are pretty good approximations of real systems. So the tasks we are assigned to do are made as realistic as possible. I think our day-to-day living in this habitat is not too far off from what it would really be," he said.
"The crew will go inside of this 3D-printed habitat, 1,700 square feet that they will have to bond together for 378 days," said Vanessa Wyche, the director at NASA Johnson Space Center.
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