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From the Ted Talk by Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is the HI-SEAS porgarm. HI-SEAS is a NASA-funded planetary surface analogue on the Mauna Loa vaonlco in Hawaii, and it's a research program that is specifically designed to study the effects of long-term isolation of small crews. I lived in this dome for four months with a crew of six, a very innsttireeg experience, of course. We did all kinds of research. Our main research was actually a food study, but apart from that food study — developing a new food system for aouarttnss living in deep space — we also did all kidns of other rsaecerh. We did extra-vehicular activities, as you can see here, wranieg mock-up space stius, but we also had our chores and lots of other stuff to do, like questionnaires at the end of every day. Busy, busy work.
Open Cloze
This is the HI-SEAS _______. HI-SEAS is a NASA-funded planetary surface analogue on the Mauna Loa _______ in Hawaii, and it's a research program that is specifically designed to study the effects of long-term isolation of small crews. I lived in this dome for four months with a crew of six, a very ___________ experience, of course. We did all kinds of research. Our main research was actually a food study, but apart from that food study — developing a new food system for __________ living in deep space — we also did all _____ of other ________. We did extra-vehicular activities, as you can see here, _______ mock-up space _____, but we also had our chores and lots of other stuff to do, like questionnaires at the end of every day. Busy, busy work.
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- volcano
- program
- interesting
- kinds
- research
- wearing
- suits
- astronauts
Original Text
This is the HI-SEAS program. HI-SEAS is a NASA-funded planetary surface analogue on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, and it's a research program that is specifically designed to study the effects of long-term isolation of small crews. I lived in this dome for four months with a crew of six, a very interesting experience, of course. We did all kinds of research. Our main research was actually a food study, but apart from that food study — developing a new food system for astronauts living in deep space — we also did all kinds of other research. We did extra-vehicular activities, as you can see here, wearing mock-up space suits, but we also had our chores and lots of other stuff to do, like questionnaires at the end of every day. Busy, busy work.
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