Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 347, after a year on Mars. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

The Chappia crew has wrapped up their mission.

Chappia, or crew health and performance exploration analog was a year-long analog mission

in a habitat right here on Earth that simulated very closely what it would be like to live

on Mars.

Every month for a full year, the four-person crew,

Commander Kelly Haston, flight engineer Ross Brockwell,

medical officer Nathan Jones,

and science officer Anka Salaru carved out just a bit of time to keep us up to date on how they were doing and how they were feeling.

For me, this was a very special experience, like checking in with a family member that's studying abroad in some distant land.

The analog study simulated the time delays that a Martian crew would have to undertake, so there

was no way for us to have a live conversation.

Instead, the crew recorded short audio logs of their experiences that month

based off of some of the questions that we draft for them.

On July 6, 2024, they finally egressed or exited the Habit habitat and have remained here in Houston for some post-mission

research and quarantine.

But after almost two weeks I was able to have a live sit-down conversation with all four of them

for the first time in a year. I was very

excited to have this experience and it was great to speak with all four who

unsurprisingly are in high spirits. Here's the Chappia Mission One crew after successfully

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