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After simulated ‘living on Mars’ for 378, NASA crew ‘returns to Earth’

2024-07-06 10:43 AM

Colonising Mars and settling humans on the Red Planet has been a long-standing dream of not just Elon Musk, but also space agencies around the world. However, due to its inhospitable nature, to date, no space agencies have been able to send humans to Mars, let alone colonise it. NASA Studying how body will react to …

Four Martians to return to Earth after a year on simulated Red Planet

2024-07-03 05:38 PM

After spending more than a year in isolation, four volunteers are set to conclude NASA’s groundbreaking Mars simulation mission on Saturday, July 6. The crew will exit their 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, with NASA providing live coverage of this historic moment. The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) …