A photo from open sources In the United States recruited specialists, who will hold a record-breaking isolation for space research time. Six Americans will be in a special autonomous complex in Hawaii. Complex reminiscent of Martian landscape, located on the slope of an inactive volcano Mauna Loa. There, volunteer scientists will spend three hundred sixty five days in complete isolation from the rest of the world.
This group will be the fourth in a series of similar experiments. IN 2013, two doomed to imprisonment in the Hawaiian complex teams of American researchers. All volunteers held out four months there. Last year, the third group was in imprisoned for eight months. August 28 of this year a new phase will begin, which will last a whole year, which, as mentioned above will be an absolute record for such research.
Kim Binstead, the mission’s supervisor, reports that flying to Mars and returning from it will be only one part Problems. Long stay of people on an empty Red planet will be a much more serious test, therefore, earthlings need carefully prepare for it. The organizers of the project believe that experiment will prepare the first ever manned the flight to Mars that NASA planned for the thirties of this centuries.
In particular, Americans intend to study medical and psychological problems that they will have to face first humans on Mars. According to Kim Binsted, this experiment will be a real test of endurance of specialists, and not a fact that all volunteers will be able to hold out to the end. Among them there will be three women and three men under the age of thirty with ideal indicators of physical and mental health. A special commission examined hundreds of profiles and selected them to participate in the test of these very Americans.
More recently, we wrote that now in the Alps an expedition in which astronauts learn to wear space suits in conditions simulating the situation on Krasnaya the planet. These workouts, however, will only take two weeks.
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