Saturday, August 29, 2015 | 7:59 pm
Six volunteers from various nationalities will be isolated completely for a year in a small dome in Hawaii for gather information that could be valuable for NASA when preparing to send astronauts to Mars.
The group that will star the longest experience of isolation done so far in the United States includes astrobiologist a Frenchman, a German physics and four Americans: a pilot, an architect, a medical / scientific journalist and specialist in soils.
Your living space for the next 12 months, situated on the north coast of the island Mauna Loa, is a dome 11 meters in diameter and six meters high. The doors were closed on Friday at 15:00 local (19:00 on Saturday).
Each of these three men and three women will have a small room with space for a bunk bed and a desk. During his time away from the world eat freeze-dried food and only leave the dome dressed in a space suit, as if actually lived on Mars. Have limited access to the Internet.
Sheyna Gifford, one of the members of the group, said to be “six people who want to change the world .”
The architect Tristan Bassingthwaighte adds that want to experience how to improve the human capacity “to live in extreme environments on Earth and on other worlds,” according to his LinkedIn profile. “I hope to learn a lot,” he said.
French Verseux Cyprien, 25, meanwhile preparing a doctorate for the University of Rome. His field of specialization will lead to study how to return as independent as possible of the Earth an outpost on Mars, using living organisms to transform raw materials found on the planet in products that can be consumed by human beings.
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