Mars Desert Research Station To Resume Operations

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at November 11, 2002 12:00 PM

The Mars Desert research Station will resume operations November 9, commencing a field season that will run until April 27, 2003. The crew of the Mars Desert Research Station rotates every 2 weeks. These are the scientists and engineers who live and work on site within the MDRS. They explore all of the facets of human exploration in a simulated Mars environment. As the MDRS’s initial field season during the spring of 2002 comprised 6 crews, the first crew this fall will be MDRS Crew 7. Crew 7 is notable in that it will be comprised 50/50 of people from French and English speaking countries. It will also include in its membership a professional journalist, Hilary Bowden from the BBC.