{"id":74837,"date":"2018-02-12T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74837"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:17:19","slug":"hi-seas-mission-vi-most-international-in-study-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/12\/hi-seas-mission-vi-most-international-in-study-history\/","title":{"rendered":"HI-SEAS Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> is the most international crew in study history"},"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-drone.jpg\" alt=\"HI-SEAS dome on Mauna Loa\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-drone.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-drone-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-hiseas-v-drone-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now in its sixth year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/hi-seas.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation<\/a> (<abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr>) is set to begin its next mission with the most international crew in the history of the research project.<\/p>\n<p>The four astronaut-like Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral six\">VI<\/abbr> crewmembers hail from Australia, Korea, Scotland and Slovakia. At approximately 5 p.m. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Standard Time on Thursday, February 15, they will enter a geodesic dome habitat atop Mauna Loa on the island of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> as part of an eight-month research study of human behavior and performance. The <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>-funded project aims to help determine the individual and team requirements for long-duration space exploration missions, including travel to Mars.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sukjin Han is an assistant professor in economics at University of Texas at Austin.<\/li>\n<li>Calum Hervieu is astrophysicist and systems engineer from rural Scotland.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Stojanovski is a professional science communicator who manages the Australian chapter of the Space Generation Advisory Council.<\/li>\n<li>Michaela Musilova is an astrobiologist and the chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"#MissionVI\">Read more about the <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> crew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crew started nine days of briefings and training on Wednesday, February 7, joined by scientific researchers and mission support to prepare for <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Principal Investigator and <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Professor, <strong>Kim Binsted<\/strong> is excited about the international diversity of Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> and the role <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> plays in understanding human behavior and performance in space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time we\u2019ve selected a crew that includes members from four different countries of origin. As <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> is an international collaboration between researchers, mission support and crew, it is great to see this diversity reflected in the Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> crew,\u201d said Binsted.\u201cFor humans to successfully undertake a long-duration spaceflight to Mars, it will require a global collaboration, and so it seems appropriate that our Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> begins with this spirit of internationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the eight-month mission the crew will perform exploration tasks such as geological fieldwork and life systems management. The mission is conducted under isolated and confined conditions designed to be similar to those of a planetary surface exploration mission. For example, all communications are delayed by 20 minutes in each direction to simulate the time it takes a message to travel between Earth and Mars. Daily routines include food preparation from only shelf-stable ingredients, exercise, research and field work aligned with NASA\u2019s planetary exploration expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Under the watchful eye of the research team and supported by experienced mission control, the crew will participate in multiple primary and opportunistic research studies. The primary research is conducted by scientists from across the United States who are at the forefront of their fields.<\/p>\n<p>The primary behavioral research includes a shared social behavioral task for team building, continuous monitoring of face-to-face interactions with sociometric badges, a virtual reality team-based collaborative exercise to predict individual and team behavioral health and performance and multiple stress and cognitive countermeasure and monitoring studies.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> continues a series of successful 8-month and 12-month missions that place <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> in the company of a small group of analogs capable of operating very long duration missions in isolated and confined environments such as Mars500, Concordia and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"MissionVI\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Meet the <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> crew<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sukjin Han<\/strong> is an assistant professor in economics at University of Texas at Austin, specializing in econometrics. His research focuses mainly on developing statistical methods to evaluate causal effects of treatments or interventions, such as medical interventions, social programs or economic policies. He is particularly interested in settings where treatments are endogenously determined by agents in the system, due to the optimization and interaction of the agents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michaela Musilova<\/strong> is an astrobiologist with experience working at the <abbr>NASA<\/abbr> Jet Propulsion Laboratory; University of London Observatory; on European Space Agency&#8217;s and <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> Space Agency\u2019s projects; leading numerous expeditions to extreme environments and being an analogue astronaut and commander at the Mars Desert Research Station. Musilova is currently the chair of the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities, a visiting professor at the Slovak University of Technology and a lecturer for the International Space University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calum Hervieu<\/strong> is an astrophysicist and systems engineer, who grew up in rural Scotland. Prior to joining <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr>, Hervieu was part of the Spaceship <abbr title=\"European Astronaut Center\">EAC<\/abbr> initiative at European Space Agency\u2019s European Astronaut Centre, Germany, where he was working to develop goals and best practices for future human and robotic missions to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Stojanovski<\/strong> is a professional science communicator who is passionate about making humanity a spacefaring civilization. In 2017, Stojanovski toured remote and regional Australia with the Shell Questacon Science Circus to earn a master of science communication outreach. Stojanovski creates content for the live web show <abbr>TMRO<\/abbr>, while managing the Australian chapter of the Space Generation Advisory Council.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> Mission <abbr title=\"six\">VI<\/abbr> follows the successful eight-month Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral five\">V<\/abbr> that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/17\/fifth-uh-simulated-mars-mission-is-in-the-books\/\">completed in September 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mission <abbr title=\"Roman numeral six\">VI<\/abbr> crewmembers hail from Australia, Korea, Scotland and Slovakia and will enter a geodesic dome habitat atop Mauna Loa as part of an eight-month research study of human behavior and performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[442,9],"class_list":["post-74837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-hi-seas","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837","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=74837"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174140,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837\/revisions\/174140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}