NASA Recruits Volunteers for Year-Long Mars Simulation Study

Volunteers will experience one year of social isolation and confinement, with potential psychological impacts from extended separation from family and society.

In a quiet but consequential act of preparation, NASA is asking ordinary people to vanish from their lives for a year — not into space, but into its closest earthly approximation. Volunteers will live in sealed isolation inside a simulated Mars habitat, surrendering spontaneity, privacy, and connection so that researchers can map what confinement does to the human mind and body. It is the unglamorous infrastructure of exploration: the data gathered in a room on Earth that will one day determine whether people sent to another planet return as themselves.

NASA Recruits Volunteers for Year-Long Mars Simulation Study

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