Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, astir 7 miles from the nearest town, is simply a tiny probe installation meant to hole humans for beingness connected Mars.
The Mars Society, a nonprofit enactment that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, oregon MDRS, invited CNBC to shadiness 1 of its analog crews connected a caller mission.
"MDRS is the champion analog astronaut environment," said Urban Koi, who served arsenic wellness and information serviceman for Crew 315. "The terrain is highly akin to the Mars terrain and the protocols, research, subject and engineering that occurs present is precise akin to what we would bash if we were to question to Mars."
SpaceX CEO and Mars advocator Elon Musk has said his institution tin get humans to Mars arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2029.
The 5-person Crew 315 spent 2 weeks surviving astatine the probe presumption pursuing the aforesaid procedures that they would connected Mars.
David Laude, who served arsenic the crew's commander, described a emblematic day.
"So we each stitchery astir by 7 a.m. astir a communal array successful the precocious platform and we person breakfast," helium said. "Around 8:00 we person our archetypal gathering of the time wherever we program retired the day. And past successful the morning, we usually person an EVA of 2 oregon 3 radical and usually different 1 successful the afternoon."
An EVA refers to extravehicular activity. In NASA speak, EVAs notation to spacewalks, erstwhile astronauts permission the pressurized abstraction presumption and indispensable deterioration spacesuits to past successful space.
"I deliberation the astir challenging happening astir these analog missions is conscionable getting into a rhythm. ... Although present the hazard is lower, connected Mars performing those regular tasks are what keeps america alive," said Michael Andrews, the technologist for Crew 315.
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