'Mars astronauts' selected for NASA simulated mission

HOUSTON, TX (KXAN) -- Four volunteers will soon get a trip to "Mars." NASA announced on Monday, April 15 that they had selected the next crew for their simulated Mars mission at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The four crew members will be confined to a small chamber designed to simulate life on the red planet for future astronauts for 45 days.The four volunteers, Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara, will board NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog, a