Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
The trial started at the beginning of the year. Basing on the experience of volunteers, NASA were planning to estimate the possibility of medical and psychological programs during the long stay in the Universe. All this time Joshua Erlich, Laura Lark, Sam Payler, Brian Ramos, Jay Bevington, and Ansley Barnard were in the close room, ate special long-term storage food and came outside only in the space suits to make geological investigations and receiving the soil samples. The connection with Earth was close to the conditions of experiment, with the fixed signal lag in twenty minutes.
The tutors of the project confirm the stressful and conflict situations in the separated group of people. In the stated occasion, the team succeeded in coping with the situation due to the gadgets of virtual reality.
To fulfill the project ‘Exo-Mars’ it was created a building with the square of more than 111 square meters of dome form, with the height of seven meters and diameter of twelve meters. On the first floor, there were lab and household block for the employees from Hawaii Institute while on the second floor there were bedrooms.
In natural park of Oregon state the wreckage of a part of cliff happened that broke a structure from sandstone of unusual form. Then, the reason has become identified. Particularly, the unique geological formation was deliberately broken by the tourists.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
American man Robert Kugler arrived in the trip throughout the country with his dying from cancer dog called Bella. The story of a man who decided to arrange the last travel for death-sick dog interested foreign mass media, particularly, TV-channels WOWT 6 News and CNN.
On new 20-dollar notes an Afro-American activist Hurriet Tubmen will be depicted – she stood against slavery, as the Ministry of Finances of the USA reported.
Festivals dedicated to the blossom of sakura are increasingly popular in Japan and in USA where this tree is the symbol of friendship between two countries.
Citizen of Michigan refused to cure the oncological disease that has been diagnosed so as to travel in different countries and continents visiting landmarks. Metro reports about that. The web-page in Facebook dedicated to the travel of 90-year-old woman is subscribed by more than 63 thousand people.
In Southern Dacota (USA) for the travelers the construction similar to the house of hobbit Bilbo Baggins has been built. As The Daily Mail reports, night at the apartments situated on the tree in five meters over the ground will cost 675 dollars.
The president of USA Barak Obama on Monday, on the 31-st of August, will officially return to the highest mountain of Northern America the name having been given to it by the indigenous population of Alaska. The mountain McKinley will obtain the name Denali after 40-year-old argument.
August 28 is known in the United States under the unofficial name of Day of Dream. On this very day in 1963 Martin Luther King delivered his the most famous speech "I Have a Dream...".
Hundreds of couples gathered in Times Square in New York so as to repeat a kiss of sailor and nurse embedded at the stated area by a photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on Victory over Japan Day. It is reported by Associated Press.
Today in the American city of Gilroy, California starts the festival for "those who love it hot" – foodies from all over the world gather here to pay homage to His Majesty Garlic.