Participants of the experiment year simulated Mars mission in Hawaii – Lenta.ru

In Hawaii, completed a one-year experiment to simulate a manned flight to Mars conditions. On Sunday, August 28, writes The Guardian

Organizers of the project under the name HI-SEAS -. NASA and the University of Hawaii. The experiment was started August 28, 2015, the participants were six volunteers – are young scientists from the US, France and Germany, were selected on a competitive basis. The commander of the international “crew” was Carmel Johnson, a soil scientist and ecologist from Montana. In addition to it, the team included three other Americans -. The pilot, a doctor (also a journalist) and architect, as well as the German physicist and French astrobiologist

The subjects spent one year in complete isolation from the outside world in a special a gated community in the form of a dome, which was built on the slopes of a dormant volcano Mauna Loa. This location was chosen because it has a resemblance with the terms of the Red Planet: the soil is very similar to Mars and there is practically no vegetation.

Under the terms of the experiment, the participants were allowed to go out into the open air only in a spacesuit.

According to the organizers, the objective of the project – preparation of the first manned flight to Mars. NASA hopes to implement it in 2030-ies. Researchers have set a goal to study the health and psychological problems that may be encountered by a spacecraft during a long flight. Results will carefully examine the experts.

This is the fourth in 2013, a group of volunteers in Hawaii, participating in experiments to isolate the project HI-SEAS. The first two teams stayed there for four months, the third – twice as long. In NASA announced the recruitment of volunteers for the following two tests. They are scheduled for 2017 and 2018 and will last for eight months every

The completed experiment to simulate a manned flight to Mars conditions -. The longest time after the third stage took place in Moscow on the international mission “Mars-500″. He kicked off June 3, 2010 and ended on November 4, 2011. Six volunteers – three Russians, Europeans and Chinese – held in complete isolation from the outside world 17 months. They simulated flight to the Red Planet, the yield on its orbit, landing descent module and work on the Martian surface, the return on board the ship and return flight to Earth.

August 16 NASA announced a competition to create the robot model for flying Mars. The winner promised to pay one million US dollars.