火星模拟：在犹他州沙漠排练人类的未来

Rehearsing for humanity’s future on Mars By Elena Saavedra Buckley T o become a Martian colonist, I first had to fill out a Google Form. It asked me about my aviation know-how, medical training, and experience “working in extreme environments.” I sheepishly wrote “N/A” each time, adding a note that highlighted my cooking and social skills. It turned out that this was okay: I was only going to Utah, after all, and the institution running the show was not a multibillion-dollar federal agency but the Mars Society, a scrappy non- profit. The organization was founded in 1998 by the aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin to advocate for human settle- ment of the red planet. …