See on Scoop.it – PRG HAWAII NEWS WITH RUSS ROBERTS
HONOLULU (AP) — Six researchers have spent the past four months living in a small dome on a barren Hawaii lava field at an elevation of 8,000 feet, trying to figure out what foods astronauts might eat on Mars and during deep-space missions.
Russell Roberts‘s insight:
The results
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I think that would be an interesting thing to do both from a personal and scientific standpoint. It’s all the personal interactionwith such a small group for that period of time that would get to me I think.
You comment is “spot on”, as the Brits would say. The commander of the project, Angelo Vermeulen, told the “Hawaii Tribune-Herald” that personal interaction was a bit tedious at times and that the group had to learn to work together for the benefit of the mission. This is the same problem faced by submarine and missile silo crews. Good observation. Aloha, Russ.