Jest to już czwarta misja analogowa bazy marsjańskiej prowadzona przez NASA i Uniwersytet Hawajski .
Dwie pierwsze trwały po 4 miesiąca, trzecia 8, a ostatnia przez rok.
Symulacja miała m. in za zadanie przetestowanie uczestników na długotrwałą współpracą w grupie i określenie psychologicznych konsekwencji długotrwałego przebywania w izolacji.
Dotychczasowe analogowe marsjańskie symulacje programu:
HI-SEAS I 04-08 2013
HI-SEAS II 03-07 2014
HI-SEAS III 10 2014 – 06 2015
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/hi-seas-team-completes-8-month-isolation-missionHI-SEAS IV 26 08 2015 – 28 08 2016
http://www.space.com/33877-one-year-mock-mars-hi-seas-crew-emerges-today.htmlThere will be two more HI-SEAS missions, each eight months long, starting in (approximately) January 2017 and January 2018. If you are interested in joining one of these crews, please fill in the application form by SEPTEMBER 5, 2016.
http://hi-seas.org/?p=5695Strona programu :
http://hi-seas.org/Biografie uczestników HI-SEAS IV
http://hi-seas.org/?p=3803Habitat:
http://hi-seas.org/?p=1278Rozmowa z dowódcą wcześniejszej misji analogowej, która trwała 120 dni:
http://hi-seas.org/?p=2147Z relacji uczetnika HI-SEAS IV Sheyny Gifford ( medical writer):
When we emerge on 28 August 2016, we’ll be veterans of the longest NASA-funded Mars simulation in history. (…)
We’ve had water leaks in the airlock; as they are wont to do anywhere in the known Universe, appliances have self-destructed; and our hydrogen fuel cells have never worked quite right. For such issues, the chief engineer and crew take care of it, if we can. For food and water, we get periodic supply drops. In between, we subsist on what we have, just as the eventual Mars crews will, and we do our best to live within our limits. (…)
Collaboration is one of the key motivations behind the sMars project: to find out what people need to live, work and survive together on other planets, and how to give it to them. The idea sounds simple in principle, but is difficult in practice. To work together effectively, people need more than just food, water and energy. Shared mission goals help, but they still aren’t enough to keep people happy for months on end. So what is enough? The belief – the hope – is that there’s a recipe for making it work: that the right people, given the right tools, can live together in a small space under stressful circumstances for years and continue to perform at near-peak levels, the way that astronauts do when in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station. Our jobs as simulated astronauts is to test out potential ingredients for that recipe.
What this means is that life up here is eclectic, experimental, and occasionally unpredictable. There are scheduled tasks, unscheduled time for play and rest, experimental communication methods, virtual-reality trips to beaches and forests on Earth, and a lot of negotiation among the crew. Moving into the dome is a bit like suddenly having five spouses. You rapidly discover that what’s clean, polite, or acceptable to you won’t necessarily be clean, polite, or acceptable to someone else. Since we’re all here for the long haul – breaking up is not an option during a space mission – we’ve each had to adapt in five different directions at once as quickly as possible, while also doing our jobs.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201809507/what-is-it-like-to-live-on-marsRelacja uczestnika Christiane Heinicke fizyka i inżyniera
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-it-s-like-to-live-on-mars/ Wrażenia Sheyna Gifford (medical writer) :
No it’s not especially isolating. You might think so. There are five other people up here and there’s a 20 minute delay between communicating with other people. But because we’re up here and it’s such a unique thing that were doing, and it’s the longest space simulation in history, we are constantly in touch with all kinds of people we would not have ever met otherwise. It is sad that I’m away from my family at this time – I have an ailing grandparent and an ailing parent – and I’ve left those people in good care. I can’t be there for them and that is difficult. But actually isolated, no not really. We have the whole world behind us, we know what that feels like now and it’s an incredible feeling.
I can’t train anybody else here to be a physician, though I have trained a couple of the crew here to conduct some basic physical exams – I know they’re here if I need them… Other people in the crew work together in pairs to achieve their goals. So the crew physicist, whose specialty is finding water, and the soil scientist work together an awful lot because they’re trying to figure out how to extract water from the ground. The soil scientist also works very closely with the astrobiologist – they’re trying to figure out how to increase crop yields in the volcanic soil up here. The chief engineer works a lot with the crew architect to do repairs and plan improvements to the dome. And we all work together on geology projects – we are given by mission control, so we all go out together, take these samples and try and find an answer to these questions. But it’s kind of like anything – imagine an office, but you never go home. Once in a while we have a break and play games…but it’s pretty much all work, all of the time.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-i-ve-learned-so-far-from-living-in-a-mars-simulation?src=longreadsŚwiętowanie jako sposób na zachowanie stanu dobrostanu psychicznego:
This can be mistaken for a detail. But studies carried on since then show that in an isolated and confined environment, be it a polar base or a space station, celebrating holidays makes a difference. It breaks monotony, helps keeping a sense of time, and improves the crew’s relationships and mood.
That is why here, at HI-SEAS, some of us insist that holidays are celebrated. Having all six crewmembers on-board can be more difficult than one would expect: our workload do not let us take a single day off, the “guests” are always the same, and we don’t have access to traditional food items. But it is worth the effort.
We celebrate birthdays, national holidays, and important milestones of the mission. Here, I write about end-of-year celebrations.
As Sheyna is from a Jewish family, we started with Hanukkah. Fire hazard do not allow for traditional candles or oil-based lights, so we lighted electric candles. On the first evening we played a gambling game with a dreidel (a four-sided spinning top), gambling chocolates. The game is likely more entertaining with drunk uncles and overexcited little cousins, but we enjoyed celebrating it together while talking about Jewish traditions.
https://walking-on-red-dust.com/2016/01/11/celebrations-isolated-confined-environments/