Are You Kinda Healthy and Over 30? Apply to Join NASA's Simulated Mars Mission

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Are You Kinda Healthy and Over 30? Apply to Join NASA's Simulated Mars Mission​

NASA is looking for volunteers willing to be trapped inside a simulated Martian environment that’s roughly the size of a two-bedroom apartment for a full year.

The space agency is now accepting applications for its second edition of CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), which is scheduled to take place in spring 2025. The deadline for applications is April 2.

A four-person crew will live and work inside a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat that loosely resembles the conditions on Mars as part of NASA’s efforts to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. The habitat, called the Mars Dune Alpha, is located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It has a kitchen, two bathrooms, private bedrooms, a work area, and a recreational area for socializing.

If you’re a healthy, motivated, non-smoking U.S. citizen or permanent resident between the ages of 30 and 55, then you might have what it takes. Participants also need to have a master’s degree in a STEM field and two years’ of professional STEM experience, or 1,000 hours piloting experience.

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Are You Kinda Healthy and Over 30? Apply to Join NASA's Simulated Mars Mission

A lucky four-person crew will spend a year in a 1,700-square-foot habitat.

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Each CHAPEA mission involves a four-person volunteer crew living and working inside a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat based at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The habitat, called the Mars Dune Alpha, simulates the challenges of a mission on Mars, including resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, and other environmental stressors. Crew tasks include simulated spacewalks, robotic operations, habitat maintenance, exercise, and crop growth.
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Martians Wanted: NASA Opens Call for Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission - NASA

NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration of the

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Sounds more interesting to me than those reality game shows where they vote people "off the island". If I were a few years younger and my wife could get along without me, I would apply (even though I don't have the Master's degree they are looking for).

 

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Sounds more interesting to me than those reality game shows where they vote people "off the island"

We both experienced that. lol

All kidding aside, the program itself sounds like it would be one hell of an intensive experience. But could you imagine being one of the first humans from our time period to go to Mars?

 

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I'd watch it if death and misery was part of the plot....

 

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That's a large part of the human experience, but I would prefer to think that human ingenuity can stretch the bounds of our reach a bit farther with sufficient effort.

 

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Living in a Mars colony simulation as if straight out of Interstellar​

Jun 11, 2024

Nestled high on the northern slopes of Mauna Loa, the world's most active volcano, the HI-SEAS habitat simulates life on the moon or Mars for crews who live here in isolation for up to 8 months testing the limits of interplanetary off-grid homesteading.

Inside a 36-foot-diameter, 2-story dome, they have a full-kitchen/dining room, a living room/ workout space, 2 composting toilets, one urinal, one shower and 6 slivers of bedrooms, plus an engineering bay.

The solar panels and water tanks are monitored by sensor from inside to be sure nothing is over-used. If anything goes wrong with the equipment, the crew can contact "Mission Control" for help, but they need to make all fixes on their own.

Director Kato Claeys has been on multiple missions and feels life at the "hab" is second best to a trip to Mars. She gave us a full tour of their round home and we took a "moon walk" through lava fields looking for local lava tubes.

https://www.hi-seas.org/


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