Throughout the entire year, the crew will remain within the habitat, venturing outside only for a few Mars walks within a nearby enclosed Mars 'sandbox'.
CHAPEA Mission 1 commenced on Sunday, June 25, as the four volunteers entered the habitat designated as "Mars Dune Alpha". Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones, and Anca Selariu, the crew handpicked for CHAPEA, will reside and operate within a 1,700-square-foot habitat constructed using 3D printing technology.
Leading the mission is commander Haston, who is also a human disease research scientist. While Brockwell is a structural engineer and the mission's flight engineer, Jones is a medical officer with emergency medicine experience, and Selariu is a microbiologist in the United States Navy. As per NASA, the crew will need to adjust to various activities similar to those future explorers would experience while on the Martian terrain.
In all other aspects, the CHAPEA crew will reside and engage in activities mirroring those of an eventual Mars crew, creating an environment that closely emulates the conditions on Mars.
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