Four volunteers have emerged from NASA's simulated Mars environment after more than a year spent on a mission that never actually departed Earth. The volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months ...

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...

A crew of NASA scientists emerged from a simulation of Mars after over a year in the faux-red-planet Saturday. The four crew members exited the 17,000 square foot, 3D-printed habitat and walked into a ...

NASA's first year-long mock Mars mission has come to an end. That mission, the first in the CHAPEA ("Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog") series, began on June 25, 2023, when four ...

It's been more than two years since American space agency NASA announced who would lift the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission off the ground, and about a year ...

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...

An illustration of the Perseverance rover using its drill on a rock sample on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech For more than three years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been roaming the Martian landscape, ...