{"id":125978,"date":"2021-08-07T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/want-to-pretend-to-live-on-mars-for-a-whole-year-apply-now"},"modified":"2021-08-07T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T00:22:17","slug":"want-to-pretend-to-live-on-mars-for-a-whole-year-apply-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/want-to-pretend-to-live-on-mars-for-a-whole-year-apply-now","title":{"rendered":"Want to pretend to live on Mars? For a whole year? Apply now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaOC9danxNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Want to find your inner Matt Damon and spend a year pretending you are isolated on Mars? NASA has a job for you.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications Friday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nasa-is-recruiting-for-yearlong-simulated-mars-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">four people<\/a> to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. That\u2019s a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian exploration mission complete with spacewalks, limited communications back home, restricted food and resources and equipment failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to find your inner Matt Damon and spend a year pretending you are isolated on Mars? NASA has a job for you. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications Friday for four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. That\u2019s a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}