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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: OT NASA CHAPEA Mars Simulation.
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:27:05 +1200
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On 19/07/24 04:57, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 10/07/2024 05:39, Titus G wrote:
>> Four volunteers have spent 378 days living in a 1,700-square-foot space
>> 3D-printed by NASA to simulate conditions on Mars. Fascinating.
>> "The volunteers grew their own vegetables, maintained equipment,
>> participated in so-called Marswalks and faced stressors that actual
>> space travelers to Mars could experience, including 22-minute
>> communication delays with Earth."
>> https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5032120/nasa-mars-simulation-volunteers-year
>>
>> Four people in 1700 square feet for over a year? (If it was a SF story,
>> at least two of them would have gone mad or been killed.)
>> What about water? Gravity?
> 
> There have been previous exercises.

Thank you.

> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

Over 3 acres.

> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS

Wow. 6 people in a smaller area.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500

Similar. 6 people but a period of 520 days.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
> 
> :-)

Not a simulation. 1 person with a 4 person spaceship to himself for a
fairly short time.