CHAPEA Mission 1 Egress Event

The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission egress their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6.
The first Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission began in the 3D printed habitat on June 25, 2023, with crew members Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell, and Nathan Jones. For more than a year, the crew simulated Mars mission operations, including “Marswalks,” grew and harvested several vegetables to supplement their shelf-stable food, maintained their equipment and habitat, and operated under additional stressors a Mars crew will experience, including communication delays with Earth, resource limitations, and isolation.
NASA is leading a return to the Moon for long-term science and exploration through the Artemis campaign. Lessons learned on and around the Moon will prepare NASA for the next giant leap - sending the first astronauts to Mars.
Learn more about CHAPEA:
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[@kevelectric9184]

For them to come out and thank us is very humble. We all owe them a thanks for their time and personal sacrifice. One more step.

[@monkmell]

What a wonderful group of people! Such an enormous sacrifice for humanity. CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@eigentlichtoll02]

I find Nasa really shows one of their best sides when people there organize and carry out a project like this only for preparation of a future mission and just to be a little bit better prepared and not taking success for granted but working towards it.

[@ljre3397]

Quite a sacrifice. Not only the astronauts are heros. Bravo 🙌.

[@clippedwings225]

Congratulations all!

[@diegourbina9958]

Congratulations!

[@jonnadachakravarthy7388]

Great achievement. Congratulations to all of them.🙏

[@SKARTHIKSELVAN]

Happy July 4. Crews like you motivate me to dream. Congratulations.All the best for your future.

[@Dreuh2001]

Congratulations and gratitude! 👏 👏 👏

[@djraj931]

Wow good job

[@thisthat9008]

incredible project and incredible team! y’all are so inspiring!!

[@laurab4538]

So proud 🇨🇦

[@muhammadyahyabinaslam4094]

great job guys ❤

[@wildflower4052]

Congratulations for your endurance conducting this analog Mars mission!

[@Evergreenandmyrtle]

I watched this mainly to hear the findings?

[@IngridSaybe]

So good to know about this mission. Spending a crucial year preparing people to go to Mars, with enough knowledge to survive and obtain crucial info. Great news. Thank you.

[@venusmorency4803]

how does one sign up for this? 🙏🏾

[@jamiedyer456]

How can i join makes more sence cause yall going to need it

[@fwd79]

*Simulated Mars living:* Well done 👏👏 The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission egress their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. Question is, *would you volunteer* to live like this for a year? I know I would. 😊

[@monkmell]

No, I would miss my loved one's too much!

[@fwd79]

@@monkmell that’s fair enough. They too, were holding back tears in the video. But I’d do it for my kids and their kids. 👍

[@markbass_trojanthinking]

🎉🎉

[@andrewtaylor4664]

Blockheads aside,this was a highly significant mission.

[@Annapurna818]

Shout out to ISU Alumni. 😊

[@jameschristiansson3137]

Would like a longer simulation of 34 months.

[@EchoesDistant]

Missions to Mars would only spend about a year on the surface of Mars.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

@@EchoesDistant Estimates vary, but a paper at Nature titled "About feasibility of SpaceX’s human exploration Mars mission scenario with Starship" calculates time of flight outbound to mars 180 days, time on Mars surface 500 days, and time of flight inbound to earth of 180 days for a nominal duration of mission total of 860 days (about 28 months). This is for the SpaceX proposed mission launching late 2028/early 2029. That's a long time in close confinement in difficult environments.

[@UzayiKesfet]

6 months to go 6 months to come back. and 1 year on the surface.

[@jameschristiansson3137]

@@UzayiKesfet What's the name of that planned mission?

[@UzayiKesfet]

@@jameschristiansson3137 no it's just my guess, no mission yet.

[@jessicasimplicioreis3824]

Alguém assistindo???😊😊😊😊

[@lidj16]

Did they have potatoes

[@Kvdhdskl]

All supporters with you go to complete your mission and successfully 🌝

[@douglasalmeidamachado4817]

I need a job there

[@scottkleyla7752]

HEY Martians! Welcome to Earth

[@pubkvidyo7178]

Uzbek sila☝️

[@merlepatterson]

I wonder if NASA realizes that wearing a mask for 10 minutes and then removing it in the exact same environment is probably exactly the same as never having worn one at all?

[@eigentlichtoll02]

It depends also on what the actual intention there actually is. For instance the mask still limits the amount of particles transmitted by spitting when speaking.

[@merlepatterson]

@@eigentlichtoll02 ...or it's 'political correctness'?

[@merlepatterson]

@@EchoesDistant That's incorrect. That hasn't happened since the first Apollo landing. Apollo 12 didn't quarantine or "mask up".

[@merlepatterson]

@@EchoesDistant Either way, my initial point is accurate.

[@monkmell]

Could it possibly be so they don't get infected immediately with viruses? I know older people who don't normally mix with young children tend to get infections. My parents in-law always had this problem.

[@HectorRoldan]

When can the general public {the solid ones} get to test our Team Skills and maybe open the door to the stars through NASA and other groups even if we're shy introvert autistics~

[@_efault]

not everybody can go to Mars, some people have work at Walmart

[@jessicasimplicioreis3824]

🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝

[@pubkvidyo7178]

🇺🇿

[@Livengoodhunting]

Why are we even doing all of this stuff wasting this money when they forgot how to get to the moon Lol

[@محمدابنالتميمي-ث9ق]

You went to Mars and the moon? And God gave me a meteorite treasure from Mars or the moon to the roof of my house 😄

[@arthurevans2029]

What's with all that mask nonsense? Why does this look like a super cheesy cardboard set with fake rooms and doors?

[@nuclearandspaceeducation3201]

Uuuh. They have only had contact with 4 people for 378 days. It's quite possible that their immune system doesn't even remember how to fight the common cold. This is the point of the chapea mission after all. To learn these things. However, why the hell they were allowed to remove the mask to talk is beyond me. It's an extreme risk to them right now. The people around them should have been masked, and they should have been too. Immediately. It's a huge risk to their health after a year of having no contact with any germs from other people.

[@lowmax4431]

They said it's a 3D printed habitat.

[@eigentlichtoll02]

@@MaxwellAlexander0444 What would be an counter argument to (definitely) not try?

[@eigentlichtoll02]

Because it is not there to look nice, but to be useful.

[@arthurevans2029]

@@eigentlichtoll02 I don't care if it looks "nice". I care if it looks real. If it's authentic and legitimate, I would like to see it from about 100 feet away to confirm it's not a small staged phony.

[@simsource1407]

Laughable