Space Camp Teaches the Art of Martian Medicine

Image: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS

About seven miles outside of Hanksville, Utah, a man stood inside a grain-silo-like building that he and the crew called the Hab. On the other side of the door stood his wife. She begged for entry, but he remained adamant: He could not let her in. 

The Hab is part of the Mars Desert Research Station where more than 1,200 wannabe astronauts participate in serious research simulations of life on the Red Planet.

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