The Insane Biological Cost of Living on Mars - Scott Solomon - #1065

What's the NASA Chapia experiment? It's just hit the 100 day mark. Yeah, it has. Yeah. So this is basically a it's a simulation.

Uh, it's a way of trying to understand what life would actually be like for people living on Mars. And the way that they're doing this is by they've created a mock-up of a space settlement. Um, and they've built it in Johnson Space Center in in Houston. So uh just down the street from me here, really. And uh it's built to be kind of like what they think it would actually be like on Mars, right?

So they actually 3D printed it, which is one of the technologies that has been suggested for how we might build structures on Mars. And then a group of uh, I believe it's four, a crew of four people. have uh entered it and they are living inside it, as you said, for a hundred days so far, but the plan is for it to last a full year. So this is kind of like a thing that people do when they're trying to understand what um different aspects of space settlement might actually be like is they create what are called analogs, basically a model that sort of replicates some aspect of a space environment, a space um settlement in this case.

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