Colony on Mars

Final Communication to Earth from Mars, Crew 173 on the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), Utah. That’s it folks- we are finally on our last Sol here on Mars. Crew 174 arrived a few hours ago and are settling in nicely. We have completed…

My daughter, Keisha-Imelda, had stopped believing in coddle. This was way back in 2026. She was white in the face. I had to take her on one of the greatest jockey-back journeys of our Martian world, to try and get her believing again.…

Is it really Saturday already? It's hard to imagine that only a week ago we arrived at the Mars Desert Research Station, and that we are halfway through our time here. It's all going too fast and yet in other ways, it feels like we have…

Communication to Earth, Sol 5 (day 5) from Crew 173 on the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah.  We got a delivery of water on Sol 4 so we treated ourselves to our first shower in 6 days (not Roy, he’s the hardcore outdoorsy type of the…