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“Mars is calling!” read NASA's 2021 announcement for its mission to see if humanity can overcome the psychological torment of Martian life. Its four participants, whose confinement will end on July 6, 2024, were told they would experience “communication delays and other environmental stressors.”
Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?
NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation.
I say keep it to one-person missions and send misanthropes.
we can barely endure the psychological torment of earth
Reminds me of Biosphere 2.0 and its experiment befitting a reality TV show. Genuinely interested in an on-going weekly report on this by NASA
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