Happy Monday listeners.

For Scientific American Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feldman.

Let's get back into the swing of things with a quick Science News roundup.

Tomorrow marks 55 years since the Apollo 11 mission launched to take humankind to the surface of the Moon for the very first time.

Of course, 55 is a nice round number but 50 is even rounder and five years ago

Siam put out a whole bunch of stories and stunning photo essays to celebrate

the moon landing I highly recommend to go check those out at scientific

American.com. Modern spaceflight is looking just a little less glamorous at the moment with

NASA astronauts Sunni Williams and But Wilmore still stuck on the

international space station. Actually NASA would very much like me to not say that they are stuck

and in fact last Wednesday at a press me to not say that they are stuck.

And in fact, last Wednesday at a press conference,

the pair of astronauts said absolutely they are not stuck.

It's just that they aren't scheduling a day to come back home yet, and they were originally supposed to come home a whole month ago.

So, in other space exploration news, a group of NASA volunteers recently got unstuck from a

1700 square foot habitat in Houston. Now if you're also from the New York City area or

really any urban metropolis in the US, you might be thinking, okay, so they lived in a

mansion, why did they leave and why do we care? But these four intrepid Earthonauts, if you will,

spent 378 days pretending. But these four intrepid earthenauts, if you will,

spent 378 days pretending to live on the surface of Mars.

They did that to help NASA prep for actual crude missions

on the red planet.

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