2023-11-21 21:45:19
Lisa Fauconnier, a student at the Supaéro Higher Institute of Aeronautics, will spend a month in the Utah desert. The objective: to reproduce living conditions on Mars.
In a little less than three months, Lisa Fauconnier will take the plunge and fly to Mars, or almost. From February 18 to March 16, the Manchoise, a student at the Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique de l’espace Supaéro in Toulouse, will leave with a delegation to the Utah desert (United States) in order to get closer to the conditions of life on the orange planet.
“We are going to live for a month in the resort and do everything as if we were on this planet. This includes the food we eat to the outings,” she says on BFM Normandie.
Lisa will be responsible for the physical and moral well-being of the crew. It is she who will organize the daily sports sessions and cohesion activities during the duration of the expedition.
“The goal is to ensure that everyone is in good health to accomplish the mission,” she summarizes.
Such a scientific objective
The station is divided into several parts: a main building which will serve as a living space, an outside greenhouse connected by tunnels, a “science dome” (an infrastructure allowing you to explore science in an interactive way, Editor’s note) and an observatory.
“Our objective is twofold. First there is the simulation aspect, the fact of respecting the constraints imposed on astronauts who would really go to Mars,” she says first.
“The other objective is scientific. There will be equipment tests, experiments that will test our ability to react to stress, fatigue, etc.”
Cut off from the world and lacking oxygen
To stick as closely as possible to reality, the crew will operate in conditions where there is a lack of oxygen. Only one constraint is impossible to reproduce: the micro-gravity present on Mars.
Participants will be cut off from the world for the majority of the day, except for one hour per day. During this time, they will have the possibility to send emails to their families or friends.
Due to the expensive cost of travel, an online prize pool was launched to help the crew financially.
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