00:04NASA may have just recently announced the four astronauts set to head back to the moon for the first time
00:09in over 50 years.
00:10But the moon is just a jumping off point.
00:12The US 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 grueling 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 Mars surface simulation
00:40with the intent that we can have crew in isolation and confinement with Mars realistic restrictions
00:47and we can really start to understand how those restrictions are associated with their health and performance over that year.
00:56It's located at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
00:59It has four small bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a handful of other amenities, including an exercise room
01:05and a small garden.
01:06But when the astronauts enter for their one-year Mars simulation, they're going to stay in here for that entire
01:11time.
01:11Besides the isolation, confinement, and the sheer distance, would be things like being able to get along.
01:19So when you're in a small habitat with, you know, three other people, that can wear on you over time.
01:26But that's just one of the hurdles we'll have to figure out before humankind sets foot on the Red Planet.
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