HOUSTON, Texas (KXAN) — Four new volunteers will soon embark on a 45-day simulation of life on Mars. NASA announced the latest crew of the Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA, project on Friday ...

NASA has officially unveiled the four-person crew chosen for its second CHAPEA mission — short for Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog — a 378-day simulation of a human mission to Mars.

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

The plan for the tourist camp comes as NASA wants to send humans to Mars. Mars-V is developing a Mars simulation tourist center in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert for 2029. Tourists experience harsh conditions ...

A U.S. Air Force test pilot is one of four volunteers selected for a yearlong NASA Mars mission simulation. The crew will live for 378 days in a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space ...

Living and working on Mars won’t be easy, as this four-person crew recently learned, given the intense workload, extreme isolation, and cramped conditions they faced. Reading time 2 minutes A ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers ...

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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionising radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active state ...