Life On Mars With Dr. Sheyna Gifford
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Sheyna Gifford tells us about her year living on a volcano in Hawaii with just five other people as part of HI-SEAS IV, a NASA project to simulate life on Mars. Sheyna was the space doc on the mission, accompanied by a physicist, an architect, an engineer, a biologist and a commander.
Living in a 1200 square foot biodome and going outside only in their space suits, the crew studied the psychological effects and group dynamics that could be at play when astronauts make it to Mars. On Nerdette, Sheyna tells Tricia what the year was like and how she got through it. She also gives some excellent homework.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:14.0 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:22.0 | This week we're talking about a social and scientific experiment that has to do with outer space. |
| 0:27.0 | That's right, for one full year, six people, biologists and architect and engineer, a physician, a physicist, and a crew commander, |
| 0:36.6 | lived in a 1200 square foot bio-dome on a volcano in Hawaii to simulate what it might be like to live on Mars for a year. |
| 0:45.7 | Today Tricia talks with one of those six individuals, Dr. Shaina Gifford. |
| 0:49.2 | Shaina was the space doctor for the mission which was called High Seas 4 and it was we should add the |
| 0:54.5 | longest space simulation in NASA's history. In addition to being the doctor on |
| 0:59.0 | board Dr. Shanna Gifford also served as the crew's journalist and she wrote for the whole year that they were in the BioDome on a blog, Life From Mars. |
| 1:07.6 | Life, which I was an avid reader of because as some of you who are regular listeners to the |
| 1:12.4 | podcast, |
| 1:13.1 | know, I'm really into space and particularly Mars. |
| 1:16.2 | Like I really would like to go to Mars. |
| 1:18.6 | So Shanna got out of the Biodome in August of 2016, and since then she's been the scientist in residence at the |
| 1:25.2 | St. Louis Science Center where she continues to explore and promote her |
| 1:28.3 | passion for space science and healthy life on Earth. Those are all good things to be passionate about. |
| 1:34.8 | Totally. |
| 1:35.8 | Shaina, welcome to Nurdette. |
| 1:38.8 | Thank you, Tricia. Lovely to be here. |
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