Sep 22, 2016
One day astronauts will go to Mars, which is not just a technologically complex things, but also has impact on the astronauts psychological wellbeing! So NASA has tested how they would respond.
For a full year they have been simulating living on Mars, confined to their dome and occasional “Mars walks”. Communications was even artificially delayed 20 minutes to mimic Earth/Mars communication! This is like The Martian all over again, except without Matt Damon ;)
See the astronauts “return to earth”