Mongolia’s “Mars camp” lets tourists train like astronauts on Earth

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a new Mars-V project is creating a “Mars camp” designed to simulate life on the Red Planet. Participants spend a month living in modular habitats, eating freeze-dried food, wearing space suits, and enduring isolation to train like astronauts.

Source CNN

Developed by MARS-V NGO, the project serves both as an extreme adventure and a scientific experiment. The Gobi Desert’s landscape and temperature extremes closely mirror Martian conditions, making it an ideal location for analog space missions.

For around $6,000 per month, tourists can experience what it’s like to survive on Mars — a far cheaper alternative to an actual $55 million spaceflight. The camp is expected to open to the public within the next two to three years, blending space research and tourism in a unique frontier experience.