If you ever wanted to pretend you lived on Mars and get paid for it, here is your chance!!
14This would be so cool to do!!
"LIVE ON MARS FOR A YEAR
NASA is offering the chance to pretend to live on Mars for a year. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications for four people to live for a year in something called the Mars Dune Alpha. That’s a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Volunteers will be paid to work in the simulated environment but will have limited communications with home, restricted food and resources and will have to deal with equipment failures. There will be three experiments, so if you don’t get chosen for the first one, next fall, you have two more shots!
Requirements: Applicants must have a master’s degree in a science, engineering or math field or pilot experience. Only American citizens or permanent U.S. residents are eligible. Applicants have to be between 30 and 55, in good physical health with no dietary issues and not prone to motion sickness. So you pretty much have to be close to being an astronaut!
Interested in applying? Click https://www.nasa.gov/chapea/participate. Read more about the experiment https://www.wpbf.com/article/nasa-offering-chance-pretend-live-mars-for-year-how-to-apply/37247814# "
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What an awesome experience!
POPSOCKETS! SPA KITS! POLLY POCKETS! AWESOME!
I’m currently reading Blue Mars, does that qualify?
I guess that means my fat old dumb ass won’t qualify.
Will there be a Head Of Household? Can I vote the others off? (Can they vote me off? I’ll promise to use Poo-Pourri most every time.)
I aged off, dammit.
I guess I’ll have to settle for camping out near a porta-potty and pretending to live on Uranus.
@mehcuda67
Whenever you sit
Or engage using a chair
Uranus supports
I’m getting Bio-Dome vibes here. Seriously, is NASA taking inspiration from Hollywood?
@kjady
Sensible plotting
Expose risk and weak systems
Functional trial
Uh oh. I guess now is the time to finish my Master’s Degree.
Just my luck, too old to apply and I don’t have an engineering degree either// but I could “pretend” to have one and pretend to be young enough since you will be “pretending” to live on Mars anyways!
@AttyVette
Enjoy luxury
You’ll live much better than them
Van down by river