Radio Free Mars is a weekly radio broadcast covering all aspects of Mars and features interviews with newsmakers and special guests in the field of Mars Exploration. Radio Free Mars programs are available for free on the Internet as downloadable and streamable MP3 files, and are freely available for rebroadcast & distribution. Purchase any of these programs on cassette in our Online Store! Tuesday, April 15th Rocky Persaud Rocky Persaud is the President of the Mars Society of Canada and commanded the first expedition this season to the Society's Mars Desert Research Station. Persaud also was a crew member on the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island in the Canadian arctic. We'll interview him about those missions, about the Mars Society in general, and his experiences running a past Mars Society conference in Toronto. This week's program is now available for download. [More Info] Tuesday, April 1st Harold Miller This program will feature a comprehensive look at the Mars Direct mission plan, popularized by Mars visionary Dr. Robert Zubrin, author of "The Case for Mars". Our guest will be Harold Miller who is Dr. Zubrin's longtime colleague and the webmaster for the Mars Society, a grassroots organization founded by Dr. Zubrin. In addition, Miller has maintained a separate website covering Mars Direct prior to the founding of the Mars Society in 1998. [More Info] Tuesday, March 25th Richard C Hoagland The Principal Investigator of The Enterprise Mission and author of the best-selling book The Monuments of Mars, now in its 5th edition. Radio Free Mars Host James Burk interviews Hoagland about his views on possible artificial structures on Mars, and what changes he'd make if he were the Administrator of NASA. [More Info] Tuesday, March 18th Francis Knize Francis Knize filed a "Correction of Data Request" to NASA using the Data Quality Act to attempt to get better data from the Mars Odyssey mission. Knize has been a longtime television producer and has created documentary programs on topics from ancient civilizations to paranormal & ufo phenomenon. [More Info] These programs were produced last fall as test broadcasts for Radio Free Mars. We will now proceed with weekly programs featuring interviews and new topics surrounding the exploration of Mars. You are welcome to download & listen to these test broadcasts. October 24th, 2002 RFM Test #1: Mars Odyssey James Burk, Editor-in-chief of MarsNews.com, provides an overview of the Mars Odyssey mission and an analysis of some of the issues surrounding the available data and images. Also includes an excerpt from Burk's radio interview series with Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan and Dustin Green's Five Minute Mars Newscast. [Listen Now - MP3 File] November 12th, 2002 RFM Test #2: Phobos 2 James Burk, Editor-in-chief of MarsNews.com, provides an overview of the 1989 Russian Phobos 2 mission, and new images from Mars Odyssey of the same terrain originally discovered by Phobos 2. Also includes an excerpt from Burk's radio interview series with Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan and Dustin Green's Five Minute Mars Newscast. [Listen Now - MP3 File] Purchase any of these programs on cassette in our Online Store!