'Not one insult': Briton tells of eight months in simulated Mars base

Lack of internet was bigger problem than personality clashes among six 'astronauts' confined in remote hideaway on Hawaiian volcano

Losing internet access was a bigger problem than personality clashes for six "astronauts" confined for eight months on a remote simulated Mars base, a British member of the team has said.

Not a single personal insult was uttered by any member of the crew during the whole of the "mission", which ended on 17 September, claimed the astrobiologist Sam Payler, 28, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.