I remember the exposure documentaries. It's pleasing they found net positives and continue, but I think they're a bit in denial about much of the early story being junk science. If they hadn't been a bit stupid about the seal breach stories they might have had a less rough passage.

Iirc there were also internal power struggles, and funding issues. They'd set stringent goals on being a sealed experiment, their visuals emphasised the airlock aspects and then they had to accept realities.

Running well structured experiments on large biomass under uni supervision is good.