Feb 17, 2016 ... While Watney is a movie character who gets stranded on Mars, Wheeler is the  lead for Advanced Life Support Research activities in the Exploration Research  and ... Mars. Wheeler and his colleagues, including plant scientists, have been  studying ways to grow safe, fresh food crops efficiently off the Earth.
Oct 17, 2017 ... We pair a Times 360 video series about a Mars simulation with Bradbury's short  story to explore potential sacrifices required in pursuit of scientific discovery. ...  Six people are living in isolation for eight months on a volcano in Hawaii as part  of a NASA-funded study to simulate human exploration of Mars. We ...
Editor's Note: In 1897, southern England was invaded by Martians. Or rather that  was the plot of H. G. Wells's now-classic novel The War of the Worlds. Those of  us on Earth have long been fascinated by what we might find on the red planet.  Could humans travel there and survive? This month, historian Lisa Rand Ruth ...
Apr 20, 2015 ... In a NASA-funded study called HI-SEAS, six prospective astronauts are  simulating life on the red planet. ... Holding tight to the steering wheel, the driver,  a University of Hawaii computer-science professor named Kim Binsted, told me  that we were climbing the second-biggest mountain in the solar system.
Aug 24, 2015 ... This was “Menu for Mars,” an art exhibition and culinary experiment created by  two New York artists to explore the future of food on the Red Planet. “In the past,  food traditions have migrated with people and changed to the new land,” said  Heidi Neilson, one of the exhibit's co-organizers. “So we wanted to ...
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."