Researchers fail lunar mission simulation

Researchers have failed a lunar mission simulation due to an error made at the dome within the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. Queensland University of Technology’s Quantum Cognition Researcher Lauren Fell joined Sky News Australia to discuss the details of the mission simulation. “It was on top of a volcano in Hawaii and it was in what’s called an analog lunar habitat so it simulates as best it can the conditions that you would have if you were living on the moon,” she said. “It really does feel like it, all around you is it’s volcanic so you can’t really see any people all around you so you really feel like you’re enclosed in this little dome that’s protecting you. “Essentially we live day by day and towards the end of the mission there was a mistake that was made – we were attempting to fix a heater and one of the people who were without a spacesuit inside the habitat unfortunately without thinking opened our airlock which would have exploded the whole habitat.”