A chemical group of Formosan students has just enter a mock blank post on Earth as they gear up to simulate live on another populace .
The four students are from the Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( formerly Beijing University ) . They entered Lunar Palace-1 on Sunday in north Beijing , where they will persist for 200 days . The end is to try experience ego - sufficiently for the entirety of the mission .
This is the second group of volunteers to infix the chamber , which is a large bunker that has been repurposed for this project . The first abide within for 60 days and complete yesterday ( Sunday ) when the new radical entered .
Specifically call up Lunar Palace 365 , the goals of this mission are to see how mass grapple with living in closing off for such a prospicient period of time . During their metre inside , the students will raise works and intellectual nourishment , reprocess everything , and see how they psychologically grapple with the experience .
It is160 square meters(1,720 square feet ) in size of it . There are four bed cubicles , a plebeian way , a can , a place to raise animals , and a waste treatment room .
" I ’ll get so much out of this , " say Liu Guanghui , a PhD pupil , who entered the bunker on Sunday , reportedReuters . " It ’s truly a different life experience . "
This project is not too dissimilar to others that have been done in the yesteryear elsewhere around the world . Perhaps the most noted was Europe , Russia , and China ’s joint Mars-500 mission between 2007 and 2011 , which simulated what a commission to Mars might be like .
China is have speedy advance with its blank space endeavour . It has launched humans to space multiple clock time since the turn of the century and is also currently building an experimental infinite station in orbit .
afterward this yr , it is hoping to set up an unmanned sample return missionary post to the Moon , the first since 1976 . That delegacy expect fairly in jeopardy though as the family of rocket that will launch the mission , the Long March 5,failed last week .
Further into the futurity , China has said they need to air their own astronauts ( called taikonauts ) to the Moon , perhapsby 2036 . Eventually , they also desire to get masses to the surface of Mars .
Lessons learned from this experiment could therefore be hugely good . With China banned from working with NASA by the US government activity , they are possess to behave all of their own inquiry , and they ’re not doing too high-risk at it either .
