They Spent a Yeae on Mass, Inside a Dom Powered ny Sola

The crew – an astrobiologist, a doctor/journalist, a soil scientist, an engineer, a physicist and a habitat specialist – emerged from the dome on Sunday, August 28, 2016, pale but triumphant from their mission during which they played out an elaborate and realistic game of planetary exploration.

The crew spent most of their mission time working, playing and sleeping inside the 36-foot (11-meter) dome, all the while performing experiments, and having experiments performed on them.

They could leave the dome, but only in mock-up spacesuits, and never alone. They could communicate with the world by email and blogs, but the 20-minute delay imposed to represent the radio signal time delay across interplanetary distances made real-time conversation impossible.

They ate only canned or freeze-dried food, though they were able to supplement this with fermentation to make such delicacies as bread and cream cheese. They were allowed a total of eight minutes in the shower per week.

Immediately on their imaginary return to Earth, and before facing the press, the the first thing they wanted was to swim in the sea. (Hawaii is, luckily, well supplied with beaches.)

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