One year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins Deccan Chronicle Miami: Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans -- a pilot, an architect, a do...
Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate life on Mars BBC News 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 ...
It's Time! Huffington Post California is in the fourth year of a very serious drought. Water restrictions are being imposed. Agriculture is being significantly affected, which will result in rising prices across the United States for vegetables, fruits, nuts, and so forth. The...
Six Amazing Sights That Look Even Better From The International Space Station IFL Science Imagine seeing the lights of cities spreading around the Nile Delta and then in less than an hour gazing down on Mount Everest. The astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are among the lucky few who will have this humbling, once-in-a-lif...
Reader’s choice: Who will be the Grand Marshal of the 2016 Rose Parade? The Examiner When the 127th Tournament of Roses Parade rolls along Colorado Blvd. on Jan. 1, 2016, who will be waving from the Grand Marshal’s car? It’s that time of year again, time for readers to chime in. It’s quite probable that Pres. Mike Matthiessen h...
Today in History Newsday Reprints + - | advertisement | advertise on newsday | Today is Sunday, August 30, the 242nd day of 2015. There are 123 days left in the year. | Today's Highlight in History: | On August 30, 1945, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to set up...
One year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins The Times Of India MIAMI: Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. | The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and...
Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate life on Mars BBC News 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-...
The Next Frontier For NASA National Journal Now that the New Horizons craft has cruised past Pluto, it's time for the next adventure: heading to 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object nearly a billion miles beyond the beloved dwarf planet. | At least that's what the NASA team wants to do. Per NASA policy, researchers must first submit a proposal for the second mission of New Horizons, which l...
