
NASA's Mars Analog Mission Reaches 200 Days in Secluded Habitat
NASA's CHAPEA mission 2 marks 200 days of a 378-day Mars simulation inside a 1,700-square-foot habitat at Johnson Space Center, enduring a planned two-week communications blackout while Commander Ross Elder, medical officer Ellen Ellis, science officer Matthew Montgomery, and flight engineer James Spicer conduct geology, robotics, habitat upkeep, crop growth, and health monitoring to study how crews perform under isolation and limited resources for future Moon and Mars missions.













