NASA's Amnesia Virtual Time Travel Program Suffer Major Failure (SAT PAR News Jul 03, 2014) The US space agency had given the green light 3 months ago to start having all current astronauts (those ready for launch - not in training) as part of launch preparation receive Temporal Augmentation Therapy. The procedure allows the subject to lose roughly 24 hours of memory.  Repeated every day, this allows for any length of time that the procedure is used to be erased. The purpose was to allow astronauts to travel to Mars in a perceived time of 24 hours instead of approximately 6-8 months that it could take in real time. The inventor of the controlled memory loss is neuroscientist Joe McIntyre of the College de France, he explained "We use highly controlled microwaves to make certain parts of the brain stop communicating, it is like pulling a cable from a remote hard disk, the data is still there but it is invisible to the central computer." For the astronauts unfortunately the program had an effect that did not show up until months later, they forgot all their space training. They had in fact lost the ability to understand anything technical. This was first discovered when one of the astronauts could not figure out how to operate their cell phone, after that episode all the other astronauts in the program starting losing technical ability. They did not know how to do any space activities anymore such as operating computers or any of the flight duties. All of the affected 43 participants are now in a special hospital unit for brain trauma. As a result of the loss of all space crews, NASA is starting a major campaign to hire new staff for all astronaut positions.