A year out of this world: Nasa seeks volunteers to simulate Mars mission

The surface of Mars will be replicated at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for its crew health and performance exploration analog program. Photograph: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/PA

For anybody already jaded by the news and joking about a trip to outer space to avoid it all, Nasa might just have you covered.

The space agency is seeking four volunteers to spend a year living on Mars – or at least a 3D-printed replica of the red planet. Isolation is pretty much guaranteed.