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 ...

The prospect of living on other planets, easily achieved in fictional Hollywood productions, isn't so simple for the scientific community. The amount of research and data it takes to accomplish such a ...

A U.S. Air Force test pilot is one of four volunteers selected for a yearlong NASA Mars mission simulation. The crew will live for 378 days in a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat at Johnson Space ...

Ross Elder of Williamstown, who will command a simulated mission living on Mars for 378 days. The mission begins Oct. 19. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A Williamstown man will lead an Earth-based ...

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 ...

For a very long time humanity has dreamed of traveling to other planets. Because of its proximity and similarity to our own corner of the Universe, these 'other planets' often take the shape of Mars ...

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NASA’s next crew of “astronauts” won’t leave Houston, but they will live like they’re 140 million miles away — sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat for 378 days. NASA said last week that four ...