00:00NASA may have just recently announced the four astronauts set to head back to the moon
00:08for the first time in over 50 years, but the moon is just a jumping off point.
00:12The U.S. Space Agency is hoping to get human feet on the Martian surface in the next decade.
00:17And when they do land, this might be the kind of structure they live in.
00:20This is the 3D printed habitat for humans NASA will use to train astronauts for their
00:24grueling life on Mars.
00:26Here's NASA's Advanced Food Technology Lead Scientist Grace Douglas to explain.
00:30So the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHPEA, was developed as a one year
00:39Mars surface simulation with the intent that we can have crew in isolation and confinement
00:46with Mars realistic restrictions and we can really start to understand how those restrictions
00:52are associated with their health and performance over that year.
00:56It's located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
01:00It has four small bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a handful of other amenities including
01:04an exercise room and a small garden.
01:06But when the astronauts enter for their one year Mars simulation, they're going to stay
01:10in here for that entire time.
01:11Besides the isolation, confinement and the sheer distance would be things like being
01:18able to get along.
01:19So when you're in a small habitat with three other people, that can wear on you over time.
01:25But that's just one of the hurdles we'll have to figure out before humankind sets foot on
01:30the red planet.
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