num_pages: 240
description: Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars is an essay collection inspired by the author's four-month stay inside a simulated Martian habitat. When it comes to Mars the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets the engines the fuel. But upon arrival what will it actually be like?In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is along with five fellow crew members she embarked on NASAs first HI-SEAS mission a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. For four months she lived worked and slept in an isolated geodesic dome conducting a sleep study on her crewmates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters as well as the nature of boredom dreams and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory.In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanitys broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life of the standard able-bodied astronaut and Greenes brothers disability of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple of departure and return.By asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe Greene has written a remarkable wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now as a pre-Mars species poised on the edge readying for launch.
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title: Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin