Mars Needs Women
available in a Harvard archive. He writes: “On the average, women have lower mass and take less volume than males, and use proportionately less consumables.”
“With missions like these, you watch a group of strangers become a family,” says Michaela Musilova, PhDdirector of HI-SEAS Missions, who commanded the latest simulation. As an astrobiologist focusing on life in extreme environments, she has taken charge of 30 such simulated explorations and found no change in efficiency between all-women and coed missions. However, with the exclusively female crew, she says,“I found the women bonded more closely.
Proctor values the opportunity to put women at the forefront of space flight and challenges the idea that astronauts can only come from the world of STEM. She thinks this “art heavy” all-women mission challenged the concept of who can head to space. “Simulations like this give us a chance to think about what other professions, like artists, bring to the mix when locked down together,” she says.
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