Sheyna Gifford joins Crew of Six who will live inside an Isolation Dome
Dr. Sheyna Gifford, a jewish Chief Medical and Safety Officer, has joined five other crew members in NASA- sponsored Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) habitat. She will live inside a dome for one year.
The science journalist will live for 12 months inside an isolation dome in Hawaii simulating as if they were on Mars. The information was released on NEWSER.
As per reports, Dr. Gifford has been involved in many researches since 1977. With her extensive study trajectories, Gifford always aims to create solutions and to teach others her impressive knowledge.
She has been involved in another three space missions with NASA, and is responsible for updating the website livefrommars.life that aims to tell how is the simulating experience going.
The mission started on last August 28th aims to prepare astronauts for long duration mars missions in future. Dr.Sheyna Gifford will live with five more participants for an entire year in a white dome in Hawaii.
The dome is completely fixed to look as if they were actually in Mars. To make this possible, every team member will have to wear a spacesuit when they leave the dome, even if the air conditions don’t cooperate.
Despite each person is given a private room with a small desk and a sleeping cot, there’s not much space for some private time. NASA, through this attempt, wants to test human interactions to see how it could work in outer space given that in previous missions misunderstandings between crew members have been unavoidable.