"Exploring NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat for Future Missions"

NASA has unveiled a new Mars-simulation habitat, where volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to the Red Planet. The facility, created for three planned experiments called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), is located at the US space agency’s massive research base in Houston, Texas. Four volunteers will begin the first trial this summer during which NASA plans to monitor their physical and mental health to better understand humans’ fortitude for such long isolation.