You know what? Good for them.
One of the things that astronauts need to contend with when we colonize Mars is isolation. After all, they’ll be alone with just their fellow crew members for months or even years at a time. Plus, it
could get even get worse if a "The Martian" situation occurs and someone ends up totally alone on the Red Planet.found that participants often get distant and rebellious as time goes on.— an off-world settlement test facility in Russia — looked at 17 isolation experiments it conducted that lasted 120 days each between 2017 and 2019,The organization found that the study’s participants grew more and more autonomous as time went on, resulting in limited communication with mission control.
"The crews in simulated missions tended to reduce their communication with the mission control during the isolation, sharing their needs and problems less and less — with rare exceptions such as important mission events, like landing simulation,"
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