{"id":78177,"date":"2018-05-01T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/8-men-and-women-once-sealed-themselves-inside-this-enormous-fake-mars-colony-for-2-years-heres-what-its-like-today"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:09:47","slug":"8-men-and-women-once-sealed-themselves-inside-this-enormous-fake-mars-colony-for-2-years-heres-what-its-like-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/8-men-and-women-once-sealed-themselves-inside-this-enormous-fake-mars-colony-for-2-years-heres-what-its-like-today","title":{"rendered":"8 men and women once sealed themselves inside this enormous fake Mars colony for 2 years \u2014 here\u2019s what it\u2019s like today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-men-and-women-once-sealed-themselves-inside-this-enormous-fake-mars-colony-for-2-years-heres-what-its-like-today.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Bass, an oil tycoon, spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. Four men and four women sealed themselves inside the airtight space in September 1991 and emerged two years later.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental space-age facility served as the stage for a spectacular and controversial <a href=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Human-Experiment-Twenty-Minutes-Biosphere\/dp\/156025775X?tag=lifeboatfound-20 target=_blank>story of human endurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biosphere-two-pictures-tour-2018-4\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biosphere-two-pictures-tour-2018&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2. Ed Bass, an oil tycoon, spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. Four men and four [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78177","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=78177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78309,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78177\/revisions\/78309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}