Four volunteer crew members emerged Saturday from NASA's first simulated Mars environment, where they'd spent more than a year.
Four volunteers have emerged from NASA 's simulated Mars environment after more than a year spent on a mission that never actually departed Earth.The volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA 's first simulated Mars habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston, which was designed to help scientists and researchers anticipate what a real mission to the planet might be like, along with all of its expected challenges.
Two additional CHAPEA missions are planned and crews will continue conducting simulated spacewalks and gathering data on factors related to physical and behavioral health and performance, NASA said.Steve Koerner, deputy director of Johnson Space Center, said most of the first crew's experimentation focused on nutrition and how that affected their performance. The work was 'crucial science as we prepare to send people on to the red planet,' he said.
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