The Latest Breaking News from CHAPEA

NASA is now taking applications for its yearlong Moon and Mars simulation in Houston. Check the full list of requirements, from age and height limits to STEM degrees.

NASA is recruiting volunteers for a year-long simulated deep-space mission. Participants will live and work in a special habitat at Johnson Space Center. This research will study crew adaptation to long-duration spaceflight challenges. The mission supports NASA's Artemis program for lunar and Martian exploration. Findings will enhance future spacecraft design…

Four non-astronaut volunteers will spend a year in a 3D-printed habitat simulating living conditions on Mars as part of NASA's CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) program

This week, the NASA Mars simulation mission CHAPEA began. Four participants are volunteering to live inside a 3D-printed base where future astronauts may dwell.

Four crewmembers will live in a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a simulation of a Mars mission.

Starting this June, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat