The research continues on the quest to send humans beyond the moon. 3

Check out this NASA project where a group of six volunteers lived inside a small dome on top of a volcano in Alaska for eight months, pretending to be on Mars, be there when they emerge on the last day. 4

It's crazy that you guys have been living in this dome for eight months. 5

Six of you in here. 6

You call me crazy, but that's actually why these six crew members were chosen for this special mission. 7

Deceived the would go crazy. 8

It definitely has that potential. 9

I was one of the first civilians they saw in months is pretty tiny. 10

That's because they were stuck living inside this small dome pretending to be on Mars except Mars is the top of this dormant volcano in Hawaii. 11

Some say this is the most Martian like environment we have here on Earth. 12

It's isolated, it's desolate, it's rocky, it's cold. 13

I mean, I truly feel like I'm on another planet. 14

They lived here because NASA needs to figure out a major problem if the mind can handle a trip to deep space. 15

Thes missions are incredible. 16

Undertakings are unprecedented in terms of distance, duration and confinement. 17

We don't know how it's truly gonna impact our brains. 18

Yes, exactly. 19

We really want to be able to quantify this risk, and that's where the high seas mission comes in. 20

The goal of this mission is to look a crew cohesion and performance and want to see how we can select people and then support them so they could do long duration space missions without going crazy. 21

Basically, there have been similar experiments, but Hi Seas is one of the longest on the first to focus solely on a co admission to Marv's. 22

So we had to wear these Soc ah motors while we were awake, and they would like measure interaction. 23

So those are the things we measure, how close you are to some of your other crew members. 24

See who likes with each other who doesn't like each other, allowed your voices when you're talking to someone, possibly discussion that never a Mars mission could last over a year. 25

So researchers studied had the high seas crew behaved during this extended period of time in this very confined space. 26

Is there any place in this habitat where you have any privacy at all visual privacy. 27

You can go to your room and close the door, but there's absolutely no sound privacy at all. 28

But it's not just how the crews get along. 29

The data we're getting out is giving NASA engineers information about how much water crews use, how much food they eat, what kinds of food they eat, how much energy they use, how much space they crewmember selected for this mission. 30

Ours astronaut like as possible, chosen for their education and temperament. 31

But even they had a hard time. 32

I had to try different things I had to like. 33

Okay, well, maybe if I just go in my room and, like, stay away from people for a while, that doesn't work. 34

But if we want to make it to another planet, we need to figure out how to deal with these feelings of anxiety, depression, even boredom. 35

Let's play board games about five nights a week. 36

Did you guys get bored a lot? 37

So you get the board games well, Yeah. 38

Movies and TV shows and board games were about the only social activities, and NASA psychologists say that a very important part of keeping us happy is food. 39

So this is where you guys did all your cooking? 40

Yes, but it's not your typical cooking. 41

I mean, you guys were dealing with freeze dried food here. 42

Yeah, Nothing. 43

Nothing really fresh know. 44

You can always find someone making something in here, So it's kind of the most social room, Unlike closer space missions, Earth is so far, you can't even see it from Mars. 45

So the crew here didn't have much of you either. 46

I want to see where you guys slept through. 47

This is Sophia. 48

NYSE Room's pretty compact in their compact. 49

No windows? 50

No, you got a block from the space radiation, right? 51

Right, Exactly. 52

Yeah. 53

Power and water on Mars is also limited, so they could only take 16 minute shower per week kind of track everyone's usage of the shower. 54

There's also a 20 minute communication delay to and from Earth contact with the outside world. 55

We had, you know, some delayed communication, family and friends to communicate with it. 56

So I think that was really important to a lot of the crew members, the legs and whenever they went outside to simulate space walks. 57

They actually wore a spacesuit. 58

Having gone through this experience, would you still go to Mars? 59

Absolutely. 60

Where do you go tomorrow? 61

Yesterday. 62

And even though they didn't really go to Mars, they survived an extreme test. 63

This moment is pretty awesome. 64

Toa be able to come out and walk around and their struggles may bring us one step closer to getting there.