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Coronavirus quarantine could provide lessons for future space travel on how regular people weather isolation

  • Written by Inga Popovaite, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Iowa
A researcher in a spacesuit on "Mars" outside the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah.David Howells/Corbis Historical via Getty Images

I was supposed to travel to “Mars” this month. The plan was to stay two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station – actually in the Utah desert – to simulate human operations on the...

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