A team of six volunteers has joined to head to the moon of Mars Phobos. They embarked on a 45-day trip to the moon of Mars from October 1, while participating in a simulation of the largest pair of moons of Mars. The will was completed by volunteers while living in a terrestrial habitat located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
On September 29, the space agency announced this program stating that they were not stopping in preparations to head to Mars. In addition, NASA also revealed the names of the volunteers who give life to this project. However, the data collected from this mission will grow and increase the information needed for future efforts to the Moon, long-term missions to Mars, and trips to the planned lunar gate.
The new crew for NASA’s upcoming human exploration research analog mission, or HERA, is in front of the habitat that will be its home for 45 days. From left to right: Lauren Cornell, Monique Garcia, Christopher Roberts and Madelyne Willis. Image credits: NASA
The mission has been named HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog). It has been designed to stimulate deep space environments such as remote conditions, isolation, and confinement in exploration scenarios. According to NASA, HERA will house all crew members for 45 days until the mission ends on November 15th. After that, those inside the space center will experience more delays in communicating with the outside world as the trip brings crew members closer to Phobos.
This mission began at the start of HERA Campaign 6, which will be followed by three additional missions. Throughout the missions, NASA’s Human Research Program will conduct a total of 15 studies with the help of seven returning researches and eight new ones.
Below are the names of four of the volunteers, who will form the main crew, while the other two are members of the security crew. The main crew team includes Monique Garcia, Christopher Roberts, Lauren Cornell and Madelyne Willis. Justin Lawrence and Pu Wang are involved in the security crew.
Similar to this mission, on January 4, 2020, six scientists embarked on their first “mission to Mars” on the slopes of the world’s largest volcano, which is Mauna Loa in Hawaii. It was not a traditional Mars mission, but an “analog” astronaut mission where scientists and explorers worked and studied remote places on Earth that resembled the characteristics, terrain, and composition of the moon. o Mart.
Experts believe that a mission like this usually generates important information and data about the scientific goals and preparation of astronauts to take on a mission to another world. During this week, a team of six analog astronauts was lifted on the Sensoria I spacecraft. It was the inaugural company of the Sensoria project.
For the uninvested, the Sensoria project included a series of missions to the Hawaii analog and space exploration simulation (HI-SEAS). It is an analogous habitat on Mars exclusively for scientists and experts. The whole project lasted from 4 to 18 January, where the crew resurfaced from their “Martian” habitat.
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