Last week, NASA released a new crowdsourcing competition to build out a virtual reality Mars simulator. The agency would be able to use the simulator to prepare astronauts for the various scenarios ...
NASA kicked off a 378-day mission on Sunday in which a crew of four volunteers will be locked in a ground-based simulation of the planet Mars, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The ...
NASA's CHAPEA mission was a 378-day Mars simulation in a habitat in Houston. Scientists want to know what challenges astronauts will face on Mars, including extreme isolation. Crew member Ross ...
Mars in true color. Photo by the European Space Agency/wikimedia commons. This past summer, Professor Jason Lee of the University of Connecticut’s Mechanical Engineering Department traded in his usual ...