While this is an analog mission, standing out on the side of a volcano in a spacesuit looking out over a landscape of red lava rocks and nothing much more, it’s feeling more like Mars every day ...

NASA's Mars Analog Mission's 100-day milestone inside the CHAPEA habitat marks a groundbreaking experiment simulating life on Mars, aiding future space exploration.

While a first for HI-SEAS, the mission is not the first all-woman Mars analog mission. That title belongs the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in 2005 and 2006.

The mission, which marked the first completed installment of three planned programs from NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), lasted 378 days and began on June 25, 2023.

Here, we see a patch from NASA 6/Mir 24 mission where Mir acts as the hammer of the traditional Communist symbol, the hammer and sickle. It's not just astronauts that get patches.

A NASA mission to test how living on Mars would stress and test a human crew ended Saturday, with four volunteers emerging from more than a year in a 1,700-square-foot structure.

NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, commenced on Sunday by sealing four volunteers in a Mars simulation for the next 378 days.

Space travel writer Heather Archuletta shares her own experiences as an analog astronaut at NASA—and the long recovery afterwards—going through months of arduous training for research. Read ...

There are a great deal of electronics on these Mars devices such as the descent stage and the Curiosity Rover. Here are a few companies that have devices onboard. Intersil Corporation announced it has ...

A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 ...

Mars is calling! NASA is seeking applicants for participation as a crew member during the first one-year analog mission in a habitat to simulate life on a distant world, set to begin in Fall 2022 ...