PHOTO DATE: July 06, 2024 LOCATION: Bldg. 220 - CHAPEA Habitat SUBJECT: ASA Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mars Analog Mission 1 Egress Event with crew Anca Selariu, Nathan Jones, Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell.
When Kelly Haston emerged from NASA's Mars simulation project, she was met with flashing cameras, beaming colleagues and rigorous applause. It was a stark change from the previous 378 days, during which she and her three crew members shared a 157-square-metre habitat meant to simulate an eventual mission to Mars.Kelly Haston, a Canadian research scientist, speaks to reporters after exiting the Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed Mars simulation habitat, after 378 days.
She and her colleagues Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and Anca Selariu entered the Mars environment on June 25, 2023, and emerged to much fanfare on July 6. Members of the NASA CHAPEA Mars simulation mission throw a birthday party for their crewmate. The crew played board games and table tennis, threw each other birthday parties, gave each other haircuts, celebrated holidays together and sat down every day to share meals — made, in part, from ingredients they'd grown as a team.
And Selariu, a microbiologist with the U.S. Navy, expressed a thrill at being part of something bigger than herself. But as close as Haston and her crew became, she says she struggled being away from her partner and her family members, especially during more difficult times.
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