NASA job advert for people who have dreamed of living on planet mars.
They are preparing for sending astronauts to Mars. Now NASA has started taking applications. They will select four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. This is a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat which was created through a 3D-printer. It is located inside a building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The volunteers who qualify will be paid and their work will be to live in a simulated Martian exploration mission. There will be limited communication to family and friends, spacewalks, equipment failures and restricted food and resources.
NASA will be conducting three such experiments with the first one planned for fall 2022.
The volunteers will eat the ready-to-eat space food and the habitat has no windows. They will grow some plants.
“We want to understand how humans perform in them,” said lead scientist Grace Douglas.
“We are looking at Mars realistic situations.”
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