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From the Ted Talk by Melodie Yashar: How to build for human life on Mars

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To do more than just survive in space, we need to create environments that pviieostly contribute to well-being for months and years into the future. And as more civilian aunoattrss travel to space, it's important that our enmnonviters are more than the tightly packed mechanical irirtones of the International Space Station, which tadoy represents the state of the art for long-duration human life in space. We also want to incorporate practical atcthuiarecrl elements such as access to natural light through windows and greenery. These were features that were missing aboard the space sttoain when it was first commissioned, but which we know are critical to positive psychological functioning and well-being. For long duration miossnis in deep scape, it's important that crew members feel less like they're living in a machine and more like they're living in a home.

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To do more than just survive in space, we need to create environments that __________ contribute to well-being for months and years into the future. And as more civilian __________ travel to space, it's important that our ____________ are more than the tightly packed mechanical _________ of the International Space Station, which _____ represents the state of the art for long-duration human life in space. We also want to incorporate practical _____________ elements such as access to natural light through windows and greenery. These were features that were missing aboard the space _______ when it was first commissioned, but which we know are critical to positive psychological functioning and well-being. For long duration ________ in deep _____, it's important that crew members feel less like they're living in a machine and more like they're living in a home.

Solution

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  2. positively
  3. architectural
  4. today
  5. interiors
  6. environments
  7. station
  8. space
  9. astronauts

Original Text

To do more than just survive in space, we need to create environments that positively contribute to well-being for months and years into the future. And as more civilian astronauts travel to space, it's important that our environments are more than the tightly packed mechanical interiors of the International Space Station, which today represents the state of the art for long-duration human life in space. We also want to incorporate practical architectural elements such as access to natural light through windows and greenery. These were features that were missing aboard the space station when it was first commissioned, but which we know are critical to positive psychological functioning and well-being. For long duration missions in deep space, it's important that crew members feel less like they're living in a machine and more like they're living in a home.

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