By Dean Murray

A UK-born woman may be about to go to Mars for a year - at least in simulated form.

Laura Marie is on the alternate crew list to live for 378 days inside a fake Mars base habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Four research volunteers will enter the 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat on October 19 to live and work like astronauts.

The primary crew include Ross Elder, a major and experimental test pilot in the United States Air Force , and Ellen Ellis, a colonel and an acquisitions officer in the United States Space Force .

Laura Marie is one of two picked to replace any drop-outs during the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission.

Born in the United Kingdom, Laura Marie immigrated to the U.S. in 2016. She is a commer

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