Recent content by Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd

Hi Ricardo. I'm not sure what you men by high frequency, I'm assuming you're referring to radiation exposure. While our analog habitat is fairly safe on the side of the volcano here on Earth, researchers are exploring using lava tubes like the ones we explored on Mars for future settlers on Mars...

Not on a mission that would be unprofessional and there would be issues with power dynamics. The astronaut corps is fairly large though and there have been astronauts who have gotten married like Megan McArthur and Bob Behnken.

hah, a great question! We actually had a lot of stormy weather so we were stuck inside for even more time than we would normally be, we didn't get to do many EVAs or spacewalks out to the lava tubes. I think we were so busy that at least for me I didn't feel that need to escape too badly. We had...

There is actually a research station in Antarctica, and space research missions on sailboats to Antarctica do happen fairly routinely. It's an extreme environment so it would be challenging to set up a HI-SEAS-like habitat there but certainly researchers use Antarctica for research.

That is one of the aspects of the mission that, at least currently, we couldn't replicate at the facility. There are certainly researchers who do work in weightless environments on parabolic flights, for instance. So, in a way, those are analog experiments. But we were fully grounded for our...

Actually, the first mission at HI-SEAS was a whopping four months long and there are extended missions both there and at other analog facilities around the world. From my experience and understanding, each analog mission is proposed by the researchers and they work with what the facility has...

I did! I took a small sketch notebook to draw and make art in my (limited) free time, and my travel guitar so I could write and play music in the "hab," which was great because I ended up being able to put on a "Mars concert" for my crewmates which was a welcome break for everyone

In November, 2020, I "left Earth" for a mission to "Mars." I spent two weeks living on the side of a volcano at the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) research facility on the slopes of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawai'i. For two weeks, my five crewmates and I ate...

Anyone else absolutely obsessed with the audio?

Who's ready to see this video from Percy! Let's goooo!!!!!!!!

Hey All! Space.com writer Chelsea Gohd here :) I cover everything from exciting new planetary discoveries to rocket launches, Ask Me Anything!