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NASA wants to pay four people to pretend to live on Mars for an entire year
Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!NASA has started accepting applications for four people to pretend to live for a year on Mars.The project is part of the agency’s preparation for an eventual real-life Martian manned mission.The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian exploration mission complete with spacewalks, limited communications back home, restricted food and resources and equipment failures.But instead of taking the perilous journey to the Red Planet - the those who get the gig will only have to travel to Houston, USA.They will spend 365 days in Mars Dune Alpha - a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Centre.Nasa is planning three of these