Posted on 08/06/2021 2:50:31 PM PDT by algore
NASA said on Friday it is looking for a few good men and women to help it progress in its plan to go to send humans to Mars by 2037.
The US space agency is seeking ‘highly motivated individuals’ to participate in year-long Mars surface simulation, where they will live a 1,700-square-foot module 3D-printed by ICON, called Mars Dune Alpha.
The program consists of three simulations, with the first starting in 2022, and each will see four crew members spend the 365 days completely isolated in the mock habitats of the Red Planet.
‘The habitat will simulate the challenges of a mission on Mars, including resource limitations, equipment failure, communication delays, and other environmental stressors,’ NASA shared in the announcement.
‘Crew tasks may include simulated spacewalks, scientific research, use of virtual reality and robotic controls, and exchanging communications. The results will provide important scientific data to validate systems and develop solutions.’
Applications open today and run through September 12, 2021.
Those interested in participating must be within the ages of 30 to 55, possess a master’s degree in a STEM field and have at least two years of related professional experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
if they did that, they might even make a profit.
Will Amazon deliver?
No STEM degree or professional experience in my case.
I nominate Simone Biles & Naomi Osaka! Oh and Ben Simmons!
2037 is a long way off. Likely one of Musk’s astronauts will have beaten NASA to mars by a few years.
I nominate our resident anti-vaxxer jihadists. It will be a safe place where they will not be subjected to pressure to be vaccination.
They need to make it a “no removal” study so people are truly locked in. If someone goes nuts...deal with it! That’s what would be needed on Mars.
I expect preparing to send them back will be the tricky part.
Haven’t they done similar isolated living experiments already?
I’ll have to research.. I also thought some studies have been done on people who winter over in Antarctica. Isolation with no escape can cause problems with peoples behavior.
I seem to recall one such experiment where the participants pretty much went crazy.
and the experiment is not over yet, “Corn-Teen” coming back to a city near you.
Can I volunteer?
we can call it big Space Brother.
Are the women gonna be single and really good looking?
Please send Sheila Jackson Lee to Mars in 2037.
we should send all of the adventurous disease carrying invaders there...
of course, and if you are lucky one will even chase you across country in diapers after you thought you escaped.
It’s the dust!!!!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23505-toxic-mars-dust-could-hamper-planned-human-missions/
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