{"id":265495,"date":"2026-02-03T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:27:09","slug":"have-you-got-what-it-takes-to-go-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265495\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you got what it takes to go to the Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;You have to be a pleasant person to work with, that&#8217;s number one,&#8221; Purvis says. &#8220;You have to deal with pressure, stress and uncertainty and still be able to perform in your job \u2013 you can train for every scenario but something&#8217;s going to happen that we can&#8217;t predict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">What has also become apparent from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/concordia\/2025\/12\/16\/two-decades-of-research-at-concordia\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">decades of polar research<\/a> is that while there is occasional excitement, boredom is a serious concern. &#8220;There&#8217;s not much stimulation here in terms of the environment, so it&#8217;s very monotonous,&#8221; says Purvis. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to sit in your room in the dark and watch Netflix all of the time.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One of Purvis&#8217;s experiments was on mindfulness. Building on previous research, she would gather the crew together for activities that included yoga, Lego construction and painting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769778970_461_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/p0mymm40.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images Antarctic outposts like Concordia can give researchers some clues as to the effect of extended isolation (Credit: Getty Images)\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Getty ImagesAntarctic outposts like Concordia can give researchers some clues as to the effect of extended isolation (Credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We haven&#8217;t had all the results yet, but I felt it benefitted me, and the team actually looked forward to doing the activities and they brought them together,&#8221; Purvis says. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the kind of experiment that has a low payload, but a very high reward and I think they will definitely implement it into astronaut schedules in future.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;You have to be a pleasant person to work with, that&#8217;s number one,&#8221; Purvis says. &#8220;You have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-265495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}