NASA has completed the first simulation mission to Mars

Four volunteers spent more than a year in a Red Planet environmental simulator in Houston.

NASA Space Center has completed an experiment to simulate life on a station on the surface of Mars. Space reported it.

The CHAPEA-1 mission began on June 25, 2003, with four volunteers spending more than a year in a simulated Martian environment at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. The experiment ended on July 6.

It is known that Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones took part in the experiment.

“It’s been a unique experience, full of great challenges, joys and sorrows, full of hard work with an extraordinary amount of fun,” commented mission commander Kelly Haston.

In the last year they lived in the Mars Dune Alpha simulator. There, using 3D printing, researchers recreated the conditions that participants in the first expedition to the Red Planet might encounter.

“For more than a year, the crew simulated a flight to Mars, in particular, planting and collecting vegetables to supplement dried food, maintaining their equipment and habitat. We talk , in particular, about communication on Earth with delays, limited resources and isolation,” NASA officials wrote.

This experience will help NASA plan actual manned missions to the Red Planet, which the agency plans to launch in the late 2030s or early 2040s.

Earlier it was reported that scientists obtained a larger harvest of vegetables on Mars using an ancient method of cultivation – Mayan technology.

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