Space

Communication to Earth from Mars, Crew 173 at the Mars Desert Research Station, Sol 12 Summary Report: Mission Status:   We are all doing well, our experiments are now complete and we are finishing off our remaining outreach activities as…

Communication to Earth from Mars, Crew 173 Mars Desert Research Station, Sol (Martian day) 11: Another busy day here at the Mars Desert Research Station for Crew 173. While Idriss continued to work on his 3D printed bricks, Richard…

Communication to Earth, Sol 10, from Crew 173 Mars Desert Research Station, Utah. Journal Report We had aliens here today- from France, on Earth. Laurent and Jacques, two journalists from the French television station FR2. We got super…

Communication to Earth from Crew 173, Mars Desert Research Station, Utah. Summary Report for Sol 8: Mission Status: All is well with Crew 173. News of our mission spreads back on Earth, and as interest mounts, we must prepare for delayed…

Communication with Earth, Sol 7, from Crew 173 on the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah. The Power of Mars It's 1977 and I’m 8 years old. We have just moved to a small town in Ireland called Carlow. It's summertime so we have no…

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…

We woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow on Mars. We had planned on a long EVA in the afternoon but CapCOMM made contact and instructed us to cancel our plans due to weather forecasts of heavier snow in the region. It's a risk to…

The day goes very fast here at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).  I have this imagined schedule in my head at the top of the day, thinking that there will be ample time to get it all in, plus time to relax, chill out with the rest of…