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Isolated NASA Team Ends Year-Long Mars Simulation In Hawaii (bbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the blue-planet dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the BBC: A team of six people have completed a Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in near isolation for a year. Since August 29th, 2015, the group lived in close quarters in a dome, without fresh air, fresh food or privacy... Having survived their year in isolation, the crew members said they were confident a mission to Mars could succeed. "I can give you my personal impression which is that a mission to Mars in the close future is realistic," Cyprien Verseux, a crew member from France, told journalists. "I think the technological and psychological obstacles can be overcome."

The team consisted of a French astro-biologist, a German physicist and four Americans -- a pilot, an architect, a journalist and a soil scientist... the six had to live with limited resources, wear a space-suit when outside the dome, and work to avoid personal conflicts. They each had a small sleeping cot and a desk inside their rooms. Provisions included powdered cheese and canned tuna.

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  1. Re:Eh, was this necessary? by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do understand that the point is that those people should come out without debilitating psychological disorders, right?

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  2. Re: Tuna!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next Time pack along some surstrÃmming.

  3. Re:Most important question by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Same way they do in the park. Provided they have trench coats, that is.

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  4. MMMM Powdered Cheese by Bohnanza · · Score: 4, Funny
    "They each had a small sleeping cot and a desk inside their rooms. Provisions included powdered cheese and canned tuna."

    So I am fully qualified for a mission to mars?

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  5. Re:Worst part... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    could of also?

  6. Re:Worst part... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    It said it 'included' powdered cheese and canned tuna. It could of also had literally anything else.

    They counted themselves lucky. The previous simulation included canned cheese and powered tuna.

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  7. Re:Missed opportunity by tnk1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's not be needlessly cruel here. They're only going to Mars, not deploying to Iraq.