NASA to hire people to pretend to live on Mars for a year

NASA says they are hiring people to pretend to live on Mars.

Four people will live in ‘Mars Dune Alpha Habitat’ for a year. That is inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The mission will try to stimulate problems that astronauts might encounter getting to and living on the Red Planet.

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The space agency is not just seeking anybody though. They are looking for someone with a Master's degree in a STEM field and a minimum of a thousand hours piloting an aircraft.

The project kicks off next fall.

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