{"id":183119,"date":"2024-02-20T05:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-looking-for-4-volunteers-to-spend-a-year-living-and-working-inside-a-mars-simulator"},"modified":"2024-02-20T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:22:45","slug":"nasa-looking-for-4-volunteers-to-spend-a-year-living-and-working-inside-a-mars-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/nasa-looking-for-4-volunteers-to-spend-a-year-living-and-working-inside-a-mars-simulator","title":{"rendered":"NASA looking for 4 volunteers to spend a year living and working inside a Mars simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-looking-for-4-volunteers-to-spend-a-year-living-and-working-inside-a-mars-simulator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder what it\u2019s like to live on Mars? Now, you could try out life on the Red Planet \u2013 in a simulation run by NASA. The space agency is looking for participants to live on a fake Mars for a full year to help them prepare for human exploration of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second of three missions, which will have four volunteers living in a 1,700-square-foot Mars simulation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/martians-wanted-nasa-opens-call-for-simulated-yearlong-mars-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA has announced.<\/a> The missions, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/chapea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CHAPEA<\/a>, for Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, take place in a 3D-printed Mars habitat at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The simulation, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/chapea\/habitat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mars Dune Alpha<\/a>, simulates a future Mars habitat with separate areas for living and working. It includes four living quarters for each volunteer, a workspace, a medical station, lounge areas and a galley and food growing stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what it\u2019s like to live on Mars? Now, you could try out life on the Red Planet \u2013 in a simulation run by NASA. The space agency is looking for participants to live on a fake Mars for a full year to help them prepare for human exploration of the planet. This is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183119","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}