Inside NASA’s Mars-like habitat where 4 astronaut-like volunteers will live for a year

Have you heard about this? Four volunteers will suspend soon spend an entire year inside a small habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. It is all part of a program to better prepare mankind for future missions to Mars. Jason Miles has a look inside. Mars may be 145,000,000 miles from Earth, but missions to the Red Planet could come as soon as the twenty 30s, and so this is a really good insight to see if that’s even possible. That is chapea or crew health and performance exploration. And a lock. It’s an isolation and confinement mission for a year with a crew of four. Four astronaut like paid volunteers will spend 12 full months in this 1700 square feet habitat, which houses things like tiny bedrooms, a living space and area to grow their own food, and a medical Bay. We actually are collecting a lot of biological samples throughout this mission to to evaluate health. This is video of the 3D printed structure taking shape inside a large warehouse. The crew will be monitored 24/7 performing simulated space walks and other activities, only without a lack of gravity. This area is called the sandbox and is meant to mimic the Mars surface. NASA even went as far as to die all of this sand. It’s really wonderful how we can go up to a year isolation and confinement with. A lot of resource restrictions, food, water, things we’re expecting from Mars to be restricted. Psychological and physiological impacts are among the things that will be studied before. Data then helps design future Mars missions. The volunteers taking part in this mission will be revealed in the coming weeks at Johnson Space Center. Jason Miles, KHOU 11 news.