'Despite just being a simulation, it’s actually quite intense. We’ve already seen one participant have to leave the mission due to the physical strain of having his skull crushed by gravity 90 times Earth’s surface.'
GOEPPERT-MAYER CRATER, VENUS—Saying the team would return with invaluable knowledge about what’s needed to survive in a hostile environment, NASA astronauts reportedly began preparing for a mission to Mars by spending a year living in a simulated colony on Venus. “While it may not exactly mimic the planetary conditions astronauts might eventually face, Venus’s 820 degrees
Celsius days and unbreathable atmosphere of sulfur actually reasonably represent what they might encounter on a real-life mission to Mars,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson of the training mission before admitting that the experience of living 110 million miles away from their families on Venus could never match the psychological strain of being 138 million away on an actual Martian mission. “Despite just being a simulation, it’s actually quite intense.
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