A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

A team of planetary scientists thinks they know how to start warming Mars: scatter billions of tiny engineered particles into its thin atmosphere and let the planet’s own winds do the rest. Their peer ...

On the outskirts of Houston, four people have been living a version of the future that most of us only see in science fiction. For more than a year, they have been sealed inside a mock Martian base, ...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live on Mars? NASA is looking for volunteers for a yearlong mission that will simulate what living on the red planet might be like. On Feb. 16, NASA put ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A test pilot and instructor from Edwards Air Force Base has been selected as one of four volunteers to take part in a yearlong ...

The plan for the tourist camp comes as NASA wants to send humans to Mars. Mars-V is developing a Mars simulation tourist center in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert for 2029. Tourists experience harsh conditions ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

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Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers. Ross Elder, an ...