Arctic Mars simulation faces realities

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at July 16, 2003 12:00 PM

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” said Tennyson in “Ulysses.” The poet’s words speak better than we can the mind-set of this crew. Yes, we are on a simulated mission to Mars, stationed on Earth, not the Red Planet, wearing analog spacesuits instead of the real thing, breathing good old Earth’s air, tied by our familiar gravity to the terrain we explore. Our sim is not the equipment we wear. It’s an attitude.