Samuel Payler, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, spent six months living on the side of an active volcano in the Nasa trial University of Hawaii via /APWhen a team of Nasa-backed test subjects was quarantined on volcanic wasteland to replicate life on Mars, Barack Obama was president and Theresa May looked destined to run Britain for years. When they were let out this morning, it must have felt like a different planet. Samuel Payler, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, was one of six people who have been living on the slopes of a Hawaiian volcano since January to test how astronauts might cope with a long space mission. Eating mostly freeze-dried food and wearing space suits whenever they left their small dome lodging, the crew conducted geological surveys and maintained their habitat as if they really were on Mars. Nasa wants to send humans there by the 2030s…

Source: The Times September 18, 2017 07:52 UTC