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What It’s Like Living on Mars

By Will Levith
May 8, 2016 5:00 am
(NASA)
(NASA)

Sheyna Gifford is the crew doctor on a simulated space mission located in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. She and five others “landed on Mars” on August 27, 2015, to pretend, in every way imaginable, what it would be like to live on the Red Planet. Her team will be there for an entire year and a day. Read Gifford’s first-person account of her Mars adventure here.

(NASA)

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