"NASA Announces Crew for Simulated Mars Mission"

NASA has selected a new crew of four volunteers to participate in a 45-day simulated mission to Mars within a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The crew will live and work like astronauts, carrying out scientific research and operational tasks, including a virtual reality "walk" on Mars's surface. The mission aims to study how crew members adapt to isolation, confinement, and remote conditions before NASA sends astronauts on deep space missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This crew is the second group of volunteers to participate in a simulated Mars mission in HERA this year, with the final HERA crew slated to wrap up on Dec. 20.