, Bai Fan, CEO of the Jinchang Star Universe Culture & Tourism Investment Co., the media company that codeveloped the base, said, “A nation needs people who look up at the stars [...] we hope the bases will let them feel the spirit of space exploration, and not just experience the technology behind it.”
Students are not only ones who will benefit from the C-Space Project Mars simulation base — according to , the Astronauts Center of China will eventually use the facility as an astronaut-training center for an actual journey to the red planet.Students leave a mock space capsule after a lesson at the C-Space Project Mars simulation base, April 17.An electric 4WD vehicle, designed to represent a vehicle used for an imagined Mars exploration, drives near the C-Space Project Mars simulation base.Thomas Peter / ReutersThomas Peter / ReutersFake vegetables are displayed inside the mock laboratory.
A staff member wearing a mock space suit poses in the Gobi Desert near the C-Space Project Mars simulation base outside Jinchang, Gansu Province, China, April 18, 2019.Students walk through Gobi Desert near the C-Space Project Mars simulation base.Students gather around a replica of the monolith from the film
Do they have a chamber where they can train for what happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall when he was exposed to the Martian atmosphere?
Me: Is that a quantum suit?