To prepare astronauts for an extended stay on Mars, NASA’s latest simulated mission, CHAPEA – Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog – will isolate four people inside a mock-Mars base in Texas for 378 days
The road to Mars is long and fraught with peril. One challenge is getting humans to the red planet; another is ensuring that once they’ve arrived they’ll be able to manage life there. – roughly the time a manned mission to Mars would spend on the surface.
is attempting to fill in what it calls “Strategic Knowledge Gaps,” that currently make a manned Mars mission too risky. There are currently four “red risks,” says Smith: “radiation; SANS ; crew behavior and performance; and food and nutrition.” “Those are risks that in my mind represent things that, if we had a vehicle on the launchpad today to go to Mars, we would advise against the trip,” he explains.
on SIRIUS , a series of isolation and confinement analogs in Moscow studying the dynamics of multicultural crews.
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