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Who Has "the Right Stuff" for Mars?

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Humans traveling to Mars will be required to operate with a degree of autonomy human astronauts have never had, due to communication delays. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult.

0:33.7

This is Scientific American's 60-second science.

0:37.3

I'm Christopher in Dalyata. This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:40.0

Justin, tranquility base here.

0:44.3

The Eagle has landed.

0:45.9

Roger Twink.

0:47.1

Tranquility, we copy you on the ground.

0:49.4

You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.

0:51.5

We're breathing again.

0:52.4

Thanks a lot.

0:53.0

50 years ago this July, when Apollo 11 made its historic landing on the moon,

0:58.3

Houston heard the news almost instantaneously, within a second or so.

1:02.6

That won't be the case for human astronauts exploring Mars,

1:06.0

where the one-way delay in communications could be anywhere from 4 to 24 minutes, which will make it nearly

1:12.3

impossible to carry on a normal conversation. The result is that Martian astronauts will need

1:17.5

to operate with a degree of autonomy space travelers have never had. Leslie DeChurch is a professor

1:23.0

of communication and psychology at Northwestern University, and she studied the psychology and collective

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