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4 volunteers who lived in a Mars simulation for a year are back to the real world

NPR | By Michael Adkison 
Published November 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM CST

Four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year exited their habitat Saturday.

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