"... based at NASA's Johnson Space Center. According to NASA, the crew might perform tasks such as simulated spacewalks, using virtual reality and robotic controls, exchanging communications and conducting other research.... The posting calls for healthy and motivated U.S. citizens between the ages of 30 and 55 years old, plus a STEM master's degree or sufficient experience piloting an aircraft... NASA warns that the crew will experience simulated problems like those humans might face on Mars, including resource limitations, equipment failure, communication delays and other environmental stressors."
Get in a box for a year with 3 other people and practice living on Mars, i.e., let us watch you put up with whatever hardships we decide to inflict on you.
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And once you are locked in, they broadcast it on CBS and call it "Big Brother- Mars Edition".
I believe they did this a number of years ago...but the way things are going these days, maybe it beats being in the real world with a bunch of hysterical Covid crybabies...
There is a streaming show (kind of low-budget but interesting if you like sci-fi) about a human mission to a nearby star. The twist (it come early so no spoiler) is that everyone is still on the ground but doesn't know it...it's all an experiment.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696720/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6
"Get in a box for a year with 3 other people...."
That's the kind of experiment that happens when you drop both B.F. Skinner and Jean-Paul Sartre from the curriculum at MIT.
And you, the one who is skeptical of travel.
The future of space travel is not Blue Origin or Space-X, it is just staying in Houston while dealing with various annoyances.
Since the envisioned Mars habitat will be 3-D printed using native regolith (Martian dirt) as its primary material one can only puzzle over that 1,700 square foot limitation. Perhaps one of the experiment's designers has a pet hypothesis about crowding he has long dreamed of testing and has been heretofore roadblocked for ethical reasons.
Furthermore, a real expedition to Mars will involve considerable activity outside the habitat, else what's the point of going?
I was thinking more of a reality TV show arc. Instead of the hokey American Ninja Warrior, we could have Martian Experience. How will you and your team do in a module on Mars. Too bad Richard Dawson can't host it.
Just wait until one of the participants escapes to go back to her husband in Boston.
I suggest they make at least two of the participants people with real life skills in problem solving complex mechanical systems. Because engineers these days are not what they were back in the 60s and 70s when they were able to bring Apollo 13 home safely.
Quaestor noted:
"one can only puzzle over that 1,700 square foot limitation."
Well, food might become scarce on Mars, and you don't want to have to run very far to catch the guy who draws the short straw.
This sounds remarkably similar to my life the last 18 months
Just like the Moonbase 8 TV show that premiered last year with Fred Armisen. Hopefully, the result is better than the show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbase_8
They did this already, though in a bigger space, with Biosphere 2 in Arizona. It was more ambitious (tried growing their own food and producing their own oxygen). In the end, it had more of the feel of an extreme reality TV show than a scientific experiment, and it didn't convince many people that living on Mars would be much fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
It's called four-to-a-cell prison.
Are they taking applications for Gamemaker, given that neither Seneca Crane nor Plutarch Heavensbee are available? That’s the fun job.
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