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NASA’s mission to send astronauts to Mars would require a three-year absence from Earth, during which real-time communication would be impossible. Meet the psychologists whose job it is to keep astronauts mentally stable in outer space. The astronauts are caught between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the basic human need to stay connected to home.
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This selection process seems as complicated as the development of the technology for the mission. So many small personality traits that seem irrelevant on Earth can become amplified over the duration of a Mars mission. For example, a thing as simple as the sound of a persons quirky voice may sound cute, but in long term isolation could become an issue. This, on top of all the other survival qualities they will require, is mind boggling . Great video. Great time to be alive !
Gotta get some more moon rocks 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨 If I go to the moon that’s what I’m getting 😺
The Omnissiah is pleased 🤖
In all sincerity this has been a major eye opener…
Simon, the mental endurance necessary for this mission, the stakes involved, makes the lore of Warhammer 40k seem all the more possible
Watched this today it is very deep
As a layman this still blows my mind. We have the ability to leave earths atmosphere, better yet we can return to earths atmosphere. Even though I see it when I try to actually understand it my brain ties itself in knot's. To think that space is infinite and that we are only a grain of sand in the universe really can be humbling. I'm 45 now and I'm collecting an understanding of exactly how precious life is, what it took to even create life, be born human and do all the things us animals are capable of doing. Everything it took lining up for us to exist on a rock at 17,000 mph, and what's man do? Creates war, wether for money or pride we are wasting our only chance to progress so that our children can have the opportunity to further exploration. We really do take all of this for granted, some of us even feel entitled, lol imagine thinking earth owes u or life owes u anything. If anything we owe earth and life everything.
It'd be like Big Brother, but in space
History channel killer.. keep up this great work ❤
There's something that needs to be considered, what happens if someone who's married to a Mars astronaut decides they don't want to be married to someone who left them to go to a different world. 3 years would likely qualify as a trial separation. Lots of soldiers and sailors go to war to discover their spouse isn't there for them when they get back. This would be for a longer period than most tours of duty in war.
imagine being on a spirit airlines flight that was 9 months long
What a brilliant piece of work! Keep it up to the director and crew, and NASA would be well advised to sponsor more of these.
We've just been too conditioned to instant communication. We take it for granted that we can pick up a phone, go on Zoom, or whatever, and talk to somebody anywhere on the planet — or in space — in real time.
In a way, somebody who lived before the invention of the telephone or the telegraph would be better suited for things like the isolation of a voyage to Mars. Back when it would not only take months to sail across the ocean, but any communication could only go as fast as it could be carried by ship or a fast horse. I remember reading that when John Adams passed in 1826, his son, President John Quincy Adams, didn't actually get the news until several days after his father had already been buried. And that was just how long it took news to travel from Washington, DC to Boston. Europe might as well have been on another planet.
The mission as it stands would not work….the confinement and loss of human connection would be to staggering for anyone, even a crew of people….i think the staff working on this project know this, but they will look past the red flags because all they see is the carrot dangling on the stick which is being able to set foot on mars…..
No current NASA astronaut will go to Mars. By the time we make it there (15-20 years) they will all be too old. They are however making a great contributions to the those who will make the journey.
The suits seem like marketing gimmicks. Not based on tech or science use-case, made to look "futuristic"
Great documentary but I feel like there are more questions than answers… Also why would anyone want to travel to Mars is mind boggling…🤔🤷
Selection of the astronaut corp will be the undoing of the mission – biased and uninformed