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NASA Is Looking for Volunteers to Spend a Year Pretending They’re on the Moon or Mars

NASA’s yearlong simulation will have four volunteers grow food, perform mock spacewalks, operate a rover, and live inside cramped habitats.

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If you’ve always dreamed of going on a NASA mission to the Moon or even Mars, well, your chances are pretty slim. But maybe you’ll have better luck signing up for a simulation instead. NASA has announced that it’s looking for four volunteers willing to spend a year pretending they’re headed to another world.

The Moon and Mars Exploration Analog, or MMEA, begins “no earlier than August 2027” at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The mission combines two of NASA’s previous simulation programs into one long experiment designed to mimic the entire journey, including travel through space, living on........

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