Friday, October 1, 2021
A recent graduate of Waterloo Engineering is taking a big step towards his dream of becoming an astronaut and travelling to Mars.
Jin Sing Sia (BASc ’21, mechanical engineering) is now in the midst of a two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, a facility that simulates the Red Planet to help researchers learn how humans could survive there.
Sia, who came to Canada from Malaysia to pursue his space ambitions, is the health and safety officer on a four-person crew conducting experiments and living in close quarters in a cylindrical structure about eight metres in diameter.
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