Posted on 05/19/2020 8:48:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
While the moon is the main goal of NASA's Artemis program, the agency's larger goal is to send crewed missions to Mars. But long-term space travel and habitation won't be easy. Such missions will present both physical and mental challenges as astronauts work to not only survive, but perform important scientific research in uniquely difficult environments.
In the upcoming NASA-Russia experiment, which builds on a previous four-month-long study from 2019, a crew will live in isolation in a closed facility at Russia's Institute for Biomedical Problems, which is in Moscow, NASA officials said in a statement. This habitat facility was used in 2011 for a notable series of Russian mock Mars missions known as Mars500. During these missions, crews spent 520 and 105 days (on two separate missions) in the facility.
Participants that join the experiment's crew will spend 8 months inside of a closed facility that, according to the statement will have "environmental aspects similar to those astronauts are expected to experience on future missions to Mars."
The crew will spend these months living together in isolation and working on scientific research. They will even virtually conduct experiments that future astronauts might be expected to perform on locations like the lunar surface.
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Who needs this silly study? Just talk to anybody who has served time on a submarine. That will set them straight!
Isn’t there an astronaut named Kelly , I think the last name was Kelly, who recently spent a year on the space station? And they were going to compare his physical condition with that of his twin brother, if I recall correctly, to gauge some effects of long term space travel.
I would worry it would be more like this:
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment
Do subs stay submerged for months at a time? If so then they already have real world evidence to work with.
Sounds like a horror movie.
If you are living together you aren’t isolated, you may kill each other, but you aint isolated.
You’d have to spend years in an enclosed environment. There would be some serious social interaction between people. And then you throw sex in there because if you have women and men together in close quarters for years then whoa nellie. They’re gonna have to make a super fast spaceship that’s all.
We only surface for food
they just need to include one of those hot russian women I keep getting emails from
The age old problem is “did you bring enough gum for everyone?”
Talk about “collusion”!
If there are no women, the men will bugger one another.
hopefully isolation would not last that long. Ex wife had a cousin that married a russian mail order bride, she is a beauty and real sweetheart, 2 kids and 10 years so far, both of them got what they wanted.
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