Chinese students live 200 days in 'Moon home'

living in the Nguyet Cung Lab-1 to contribute to the study of astronaut's food and psychological resources.

Four Chinese students have just completed a 200-day life test in a simulated Moon environment, Newsweek reported on Jan. 29. This is a new step in the Moon's research plan to build the country's future space station and moon base.

This is the second of three trials that lived in a simulated Moon environment announced last May. Previously, a group of four other students had lived for two months in a simulated environment and would now return to pass 105 more days.

Two groups of Chinese students participated in the trial living in the simulated Moon environment.(Photo: Reuters).

The students live in the 160 - square-meter Nguyet Cung-1 laboratory . This place focuses on developing measures to provide food for astronauts without sending more goods to the Moon.

Vegetables can be grown in simulated environments including wheat, potatoes, carrots, beans and onions. The group of students also ate the worm, which is used to supplement astronauts' proteins and supports the process of growing plants.

In addition to testing the food supply system, the astronaut's waste-growing system, the group of students living in the simulated environment also helps to study how humans control psychological stress when locked up. small space with a certain group of people for a long time without sunshine.

This year, China intends to become the first country to bring the spacecraft to land on the dark side of the Moon. It also plans a longer-term plan to bring the specimens on the Moon back to Earth.

While the Lunar New Supply-1 was built in 2013, several other space agencies, including NASA, have long established simulation sites where future astronauts can live separately.