{"id":60503,"date":"2017-05-18T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=60503"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:42:46","slug":"hi-seas-v-midway-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/18\/hi-seas-v-midway-point\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> Mars simulation marks midway point"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pPttHU_9mdc?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After four months of living in a Mars-like environment, the six <a href=\"https:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr><\/a> Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> crewmembers have hit the halfway mark. They have learned to deal with challenges such as a 20-minute communications delay, gearing up in hazmat suits to explore the geologic features of the landing site and cooking with dehydrated food.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The midpoint is an interesting time in the mission,&rdquo; observed crewmember <strong>Brian Ramos<\/strong>. &ldquo;In some sense, time has been flying by. It sounds a little crazy, but I think at the end of the mission I am not going to be ready to go.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60507\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-hiseas-v-exterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-hiseas-v-exterior-260x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-hiseas-v-exterior-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-hiseas-v-exterior.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The HI-SEAS dome on Mauna Loa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> stands for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, which is run on Mauna Loa by the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>. The <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>-funded research is focused on crew selection, teamwork and cohesion. Crewmembers have been keeping busy with various experiments and projects. Ramos&#8217; personal project is 3D printing, something that may be useful in longer duration space missions of the future. He\u02bbs printed objects ranging from cookie cutters to test tube holders.<\/p>\n<p>According to engineering officer <strong>Ansley Barnard<\/strong>, cooking has been an important part of living in the <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> habitat, and the crew eats really well.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cooking is one of my main hobbies, and I really enjoy it in the habitat,&rdquo; Barnard said. &ldquo;It&#8217;s fun to make new recipes, to try things out and make something delicious for your crewmates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Growing and harvesting fresh herbs for crew consumption is the important work of the crew&#8217;s mission specialist for biology <strong>Joshua Ehrlich<\/strong>. He is also helping <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> to define optimal characteristics for growing plants in space.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich said, &ldquo;My hope is that the research being done here at HI-SEAS will be a major contribution to the planning of mankind&#8217;s next giant leap to Mars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> plans to conduct Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral six\">VI<\/abbr>, also eight months in duration, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157682024224650\/\">more images of <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> crew<\/a>, visit the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Flickr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/hi-seas\/\">Read more <abbr>UH<\/abbr> News stories about <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> missions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four months the six crewmembers have learned to deal with challenges including communications delay, hazmat suits and dehydrated food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":60506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,12],"tags":[308,442,484,174,9,56],"class_list":["post-60503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-video","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-hi-seas","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-space","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/manoa-hiseas-v-mid-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60503"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124677,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions\/124677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}