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I Lived in a Dome in Hawaii to Simulate Life on Mars

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No matter how much you prepare, the isolation that comes with living this way always has effects.

It was the crew’s first night, we had just arrived, we were settling in. Kim Binsted, principle investigator on the HI-SEAS project, was preparing to leave for four months, nervous, I think, about launching this Mars mission, a project whose actualization was so uncertain throughout the buildup—NASA nearly pulled funding,...

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