NASA selects four people for a simulated mission to Mars' moon Phobos that will see them trapped in a capsule four times smaller than a tennis court for 45 DAYS

MAILONLINE ^ | 30 September 2021 | By RYAN MORRISON FOR

[BenLurkin]

hese experiments are designed to give agencies a better idea of how humans would interact and cope during a long space journey.

The volunteer research subjects start their virtual journey to Phobos on October 1, in a ground-based habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Their home for the 45 days will be a small habitat called the Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA - with collected data informing the design of future missions to the Red Planet, expected to happen in the 2030s.

HERA is a two-story, four-port cylindrical habitat unit with a total of 636 sq. ft of living space, designed to replicate the living space on a long duration spaceship.

[EEGator]

I would have been a little different that Jack Tripper in that situation...

[Larry Lucido]

“four times smaller than a tennis court”

OMG!

“with a total of 636 sq. ft of living space”

Oh, so a studio apartment...

[IYAS9YAS]

Four times smaller

Mathematically impossible, and linguistically incorrect.

[BenLurkin]

I guess capsules seem larger in space because people can float around in them. Not sure how much NASA can learn from a gravitated module.

[PIF]

I visualize something like the concluding scene from “I, Mudd”

—

I visualize something in the ‘Hygiene Module’ like found on Porn Hub ...

[Brookhaven]

“four times smaller than a tennis court”

Is this correct?

Shouldn’t it be: one quarter the size of a tennis court?

[SteveH]

> Four walk in, seven “walk” out...

perhaps you might be implying this: four walk in, four walk out and three(+) crawl out...

[BenLurkin]

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/wacky.wav

[cgbg]

Remember the two female NASA astronauts that got into a fight over one NASA astronaut.

https://www.biography.com/news/lisa-nowak-lucy-in-the-sky

Grab the popcorn!

[EEGator]

Somewhat, as it’s only 45 days.

[Paal Gulli]

That's only 1/6th as long as it would take them to get to Mars ... if the planets were uncommonly close.

[EEGator]

Is that about diaper lady?

[cgbg]

Yup—diaper lady.

NASA now claims their psych testing is much better....bwahahahahahaha.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yeah. No.

[TexasGator]

He looks happier than the women!

[al baby]

Its going to be a boinkfest

[EEGator]

Anyone making it to the level of astronaut has to be strung insanely tight. One has to essentially be #1 for 30 years.

[bert]

A curtain will be put up to separate the designated sex module

[cgbg]

They may have to add chastity belts to the required female astronaut uniform...

;-)

[EEGator]

Closer to 200+ days.