Lucie Poulet gets help suiting up for a EVA from her fellow crew members Annie Caraccio and Tiffany Swarmer.
inhospitable
Martian
landscape.
crew. NASA and the other space
agencies are investigating the types
of people whom will one day be
selected to go to Mars.
candidates, all of whom had to meet
Credit: Ross Lockwood
Special care was given to selecting
candidates that possessed the
ideal combination of talents and
character.
diverse collection of international
researchers.
The Mission Commander is Casey
veteran of the wars in Iraq and
reasons. Some will be for chores like
maintaining their habitat systems or
for signs of life.
University of North Dakota’s Space
monitor habitat power systems and
the mission’s Chief Technologist.
He is a doctoral candidate from
site” to catalog the geology and
the
crew’s
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86
team
performance
great lengths of time in small spaces
with other people. Compatibility is as
Engineer is Annie Caraccio, a
chemical engineer from NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center. The crew
has their own Mission Psychologist, a
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