Sounds like an interesting reality show concept....



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34092770

A team of Nasa recruits has begun living in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.

The isolation experience, which will last a year starting on Friday, will be the longest of its type attempted.
Experts estimate that a human mission to the Red Planet could take between one and three years.

The six-strong team will live in close quarters under the dome, without fresh air, fresh food or privacy.
They closed themselves away at 15:00 local time on Friday (01:00 GMT Saturday).

A journey outside the dome - which measures only 36ft (11m) in diameter and is 20ft (6m) tall - will require a spacesuit.

A French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a journalist and a soil scientist - make up the Nasa team.

The men and women will each have a small sleeping cot and a desk inside their rooms. Provisions include powdered cheese and canned tuna.

Missions to the International Space Station last six months. The US space agency has recently conducted four-month and eight-month-long isolation experiments.

While others focus on the technical and scientific challenges of the journey, the isolation experiments address the human element of exploration and problems that arise living in tight quarters.

"I think one of the lessons is that you really can't prevent interpersonal conflicts. It is going to happen over these long-duration missions, even with the very best people," said Kim Binsted, a Nasa investigator.

Powdered cheese!!!???? Oh the inhumanity of it!!!

Wait'll i post the article on which astronauts recycle pee as drinking water.. :p

Is enough room in there for 5 graves?

On a serious note....
Do they have contact with the outside world?
To me, that would make a huge difference.

Which of them do you think will do the digging?

I assume they would have contact with mission control.
Plus they have an American journalist on the team. Shouldnt be hard to broadcast when needs be.

A recipe for disaster, and I'm not talking about the drinking water either.

They will end up mental and on Mingle.

Wasn't this in a Cheers episode, or something similar? I remember Lilith leaving Frazier to live in a dome or something.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-man-to-walk-on-the-moon-is-working-on-master-plan-for-mars/2015/08/31/b5195fb8-4d8a-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html

Buzz Aldrin joins university, forming ‘master plan’ for Mars

Buzz Aldrin is teaming up with the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne to develop “a master plan” for colonizing Mars within 25 years. The second man to walk on the moon took part Thursday in a signing ceremony at the university, less than an hour’s drive from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Buzz Aldrin Space Institute is set to open this fall.

The 85-year-old Aldrin, who followed Neil Armstrong onto the moon’s surface on July 20, 1969, will serve as a research professor of aeronautics as well as a senior faculty adviser for the institute.

He said he hopes his “master plan” is accepted by NASA and the country, with international input. NASA already is working on the spacecraft and rockets to get astronauts to Mars by the mid-2030s.

Aldrin is pushing for a Mars settlement by approximately 2040. More specifically, he’s shooting for 2039, the 70th anniversary of his own Apollo 11 moon landing, although he admits the schedule is “adjustable.”

He envisions using Mars’s moons, Phobos and Deimos, as steppingstones for astronauts. He said he dislikes the label “one-way” for describing missions to the Red Planet, instead imagining tours of duty that last 10 years.

“The Pilgrims on the Mayflower came here to live and stay. They didn’t wait around Plymouth Rock for the return trip, and neither will people building up a population and a settlement” on Mars, he said.

Aldrin recently settled in nearby Satellite Beach, right on the Atlantic Ocean, after moving from California. He told reporters he considers it “a terminal assignment,” using Air Force jargon.

“I’ve traded earthquakes and fires for hurricanes by coming to Florida,” he said.

The news conference made reference to Aldrin’s recent celebrity pursuits.

Florida Tech’s executive vice president, T. Dwayne McCay, greeted Aldrin by noting, “Everyone knows what Buzz Aldrin is most famous for, and that is being a contestant on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ ”

“ ‘Big Bang Theory,’ ” Aldrin corrected him.

Aldrin — who has a doctorate in astronautics from MIT — joins two other space veterans on the Florida Tech faculty: former shuttle astronauts Winston Scott and Sam Durrance.

i'd kill the physicist first...

Me, I would take out the Journalist first....

One small step for man

One giant leap for mankind.

I'd let one of them take me out..

lol, where to?

First day plan.... dig tunnel!!

To infinity and beyond!

So do I. I think that was the program Frazier.

Gosh!
I hope the dome experiment in Hawaii,
is legit. As opposed to the bio-dome fraud, from just a couple of decades ago.