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NASA makes major discovery about Mars that could answer key question on planet
NASA has shared huge news about a discovery made on Mars. After a decade of searching, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile ...
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NASA Invites Media to Simulated Mars Habitat Before Next Mission
The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) team hosts a Media Day at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on April 11, 2023. Credit: NASA This is the second of three missions as ...
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Springfield doctor completes year-long NASA mission
But for the last year, he was the crew medical officer for NASA's CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) Mission 1. For 378 days, Dr. Nathan Jones lived in a 3-D printed habitat ...
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An engineer who lived in NASA's Mars simulation for 378 days went through extreme isolation — but still said he'd go to the red planet for real if he could
NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross ...
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Real Scientists Lived On Fake Mars In A Texas Shed For A Year
The first of three planned "Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog" missions planned by NASA, CHAPEA 1 has concluded with Kelly Haston (commander), Ross Brockwell (flight engineer), Nathan ...
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What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation
Two bunk rooms in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha. Credit: NASA / CHAPEA / Bill Stafford “The amount of data coming out of the CHAPEA study itself is going to be amazing. It’s a highly integrated and ...
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Four People Step Back Into the World After Pretending to Live on Mars for More Than a Year
But whereas most of these exercises don't really lead to any actual mission, NASA's CHAPEA just might. CHAPEA is an acronym for Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog. As partially ...
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NASA hopes to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s; here's how they will get there
Marking the first completed installment of three planned programs from NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), four crew members recently emerged from a simulated habitat ...
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378 Days of Solitude: NASA Volunteers Emerge From Mars Simulator
The crew of NASA’s first CHAPEA exercise (from left: Nathan Jones, Anca Selariu, Kelly Haston, and Ross Brockwell) exited their 1,700-square-foot habitat on July 6. [Courtesy: NASA] A knock on ...
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NASA’s astronauts return after a year living on simulated Mars
The mission was all part of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog — or CHAPEA — program, which is designed to test how long people can live, work and survive on other planets.
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NASA Astronauts Return from ‘Mars’
NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) sounds eerily similar to the ill-fated Biosphere 2 experiments of the 1990s. There, crew members in a capsule ecosystem devolved ...