Did you catch the moment when volunteers, who had spent more than a year living in isolation on a NASA base in Texas in conditions designed to simulate those on Mars, emerged from their 378 days of segregation?
They had focused on establishing possible conditions for future missions to the Red Planet through growing and harvesting vegetables to supplementing their provisions and maintaining their habitat, but had, in fact, learned much about how to live on Earth.
The crew’s flight engineer, Ross Brockwell, said, “We must utilise resources no faster than they can be replenished and produce waste no faster than it can be processed back into resources.”
Let that be our new mantra.
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