Fred Smith

We call ourselves 'can-onauts'. The test I was in was a 60 day test; it's goal was to look at the regenerative life support systems that were baselined for Station - this was in 1997. We had all our water and air recycled. So urine, shower waste water, condensing heat exchanger and all of our air was recycled. On this test we saw the benefit of working with other science groups, such as SA. We looked at 9 different medical experiments including psychology, exercise protocol, CO2 effects on bone density. We also looked at remote training. If you're going to Mars, what are the best methods to train the crew when there is a communication lag of so much time?