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

episode 320, Mars Audio Log Number Six. I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today.

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

We're back with another audio log from the Chappia crew.

Chappia, or crew health and performance exploration analog is a year-long analog mission in a habitat

right here on Earth that is simulating very closely what it would be like to live on Mars.

We're lucky enough to have monthly check-ins with the crew. Commander Kelly Haston, on Mars To meet the needs of fitting in with this analog and simulating significant communication

delays between Earth and Mars that prohibit us from having a live conversation, the crew is recording

an audiologue based off of the questions that we draft for them.

On this episode, we'll play the recording of

their sixth month in the Habitat, which is here, right at the Johnson Space Center

and was recorded in December and January of 2023 and 2024 respectively.

We'll also be bringing in special guests to learn even more about Chippia.

This month is on a topic that is perfect for that New Year's Resolution, exercise.

We have a lot of practice and a lot of data for the exercise needs of a crew on a long-duration

expedition on the International Space Station, six months and even some data for crew that have

been there for a year. It's a mix of resistive and a... and Exercise Regiment for a year on the Red Planet.

On this episode we have Peter Schneider and Alyssa Verinowski,

human performance scientists who have been working on the exercise component of the Chippia

Mission.

So with that, let's learn from the Chippia crew on how they're doing and from Peter and

Alyssa on the Chappia exercise. Let's get right into it. P minus five seconds I second county mark

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