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The University of Hawai‘i is going to be giving
NASA essential information about how you
pick individual astronauts and how you
put them together in a crew. But also how
you support them over these
long-duration missions.
However, weʻre simulating a crew on Mars, right, and so we also did
things that would be relevant. Things
that you'd expect the crew on Mars to do.
Carrots, peppers, bok choy, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens,
radishes, tomatoes, potatoes. I mean, gosh,
tons of parsley and oregano.
I mean it was phenomenal, I mean, just that
delicious fresh taste from home is
really, really was good.
Samuel Payler: We need to send humans out because it's important for the future of the species.
I think it's actually really important to get off Earth.
If you look back at the geological
record it is just full of mass extinctions.
My advice for Mission VI is to be
open with each other,
to allow each other to react differently from a normal life and to work with each other despite that.
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I think we're really excited at the
University of Hawai‘i to be continuing
humanity's tradition of voyage in
everything from Polynesian voyaging to
going to the stars, and we're really
proud to be part of that.
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