This week four workers moved into Mars Hill Alpha, NASA’s 3D-printed environment planned by Huge. The 1,700-square-foot structure was built for NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) program. NASA wants to be able to print on Mars.
The Johnson Space Center in Houston is where Mars Dune Alpha is located. A research scientist, an engineer, a science officer, and a medical officer are the four non-astronaut volunteers, two of whom are male and two of whom are female. They’re intended to endure one year living and working inside the design to assess its plausibility
Scientists will recreate the moves of a human mission to Mars, including asset impediments, gear disappointment, correspondence delays, and other natural stressors.
Grace Douglas, CHAPEA principal investigator, stated, “The simulation will allow us to collect data on cognitive and physical performance to give us more insight into the potential impacts of long-duration missions to Mars on crew health and performance.” At last, this data will assist NASA with settling on informed choices to plan and make arrangements for a fruitful human mission to Mars.”
Even though the interior renders look like this, it’s odd that the person on the left gets a desk and the person on the right gets a simple chair. I keep thinking about whether they’re intended to seek rewards, as in an unscripted TV drama.
