Four volunteer crew members who spent more than a year inside a simulated NASA Mars environment emerged this weekend after 378 days in confinement.
The 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot habitat, located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, served as their living quarters. (Here’s a quick video tour)
During the mission, the crew conducted tasks simulating Mars operations, such as “Mars walks,” growing vegetables, maintaining equipment, performing experiments, and dealing with communication delays of up to 22 minutes with Earth.
“It’s actually just so wonderful to be able to say ‘hello’ to you all,” said Kelly Haston, the mission commander, upon leaving simulated Mars life.
