{"id":88652,"date":"2018-12-11T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=88652"},"modified":"2019-01-30T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T22:43:16","slug":"hi-seas-nasa-restart-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/12\/11\/hi-seas-nasa-restart-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"HI-SEAS<\/abbr> receives NASA<\/abbr> grant to complete research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The HI-SEAS<\/abbr> dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA<\/abbr><\/a> has approved a restart of a $1-million grant to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a> (HI-SEAS<\/abbr>) project. The research program funded by NASA<\/abbr> has operated five long-duration planetary surface missions on the Mars-like flank of Mauna Loa to investigate crew composition and cohesion, since 2012.<\/p>\n

HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission VI<\/abbr> was cancelled February 26, after one of the four crew members withdrew. A few days earlier, an accident involving a crew member triggered an institutional review by UH<\/abbr> and NASA<\/abbr>, which has since been completed, and the project has been approved to go forward.<\/p>\n

The NASA<\/abbr> Human Research Roadmap has a tight timeline to enable human exploration of the solar system. So, rather than conduct a new Mission VII<\/abbr>, NASA<\/abbr> asked the HI-SEAS<\/abbr> team to rescope the final phase of the project to cover data mining over the six-year life of the project, and the development of a comprehensive database. NASA<\/abbr> is providing additional funds for a more robust version of the data analysis than had already been planned for the end of the six HI-SEAS<\/abbr> missions.<\/p>\n

Principal Investigator and UH<\/abbr> Mānoa Professor Kim Binsted<\/strong> said, “We\u2019re excited to be able to put the 36 months\u2019 worth of mission data we\u2019ve collected over the past five years to good use: advancing human space exploration.”<\/p>\n

Under the new grant, HI-SEAS<\/abbr> will:<\/p>\n

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  1. Perform data mining of all HI-SEAS<\/abbr> data (Missions I<\/abbr>–V<\/abbr>) related to team composition, including investigation of individual personalities, cognitive function and behavioral health changes, as all of these influence team performance.<\/li>\n
  2. Develop a database of all HI-SEAS<\/abbr> data funded by NASA<\/abbr> to include data from HI-SEAS<\/abbr> collaborators.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    HI-SEAS<\/abbr> investigators expect to complete the data collection and analysis by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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