I’m sitting in my custom-built mining ship on the surface of an unknown planet, listening to music and catching up on emails. In the sky I see a faint ring of debris and the main star peeking out from the clouds — looks like it might rain soon. In a few moments I’ll fly to […]
Today I was on the CBC Radio One program On the Coast again for a follow-up interview on my visit to the {en:Mars Desert Research Station} last month. Click below to download the MP3! On the Coast interview #2(3.9MB; 10 minutes, 11 seconds) Elsewhere in my blog you’ll find emails I sent to middle schools, […]
Out of the almost three thousand photos and movies, I picked out the ones I think best sum up our Expedition Delta mission at the {en:Mars Desert Research Station} in February of 2008. Online photo galleries: My personal gallery124 photos with captions and comments Facebook gallery53 photos with captions; comments only if you’re on Facebook […]
I’m back from the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, and I had an awesome trip! You can look at my older bi-daily updates I wrote to a local middle school so you can see how things progressed. In the meantime, you can look here (crew 66) for our past daily reports, or have a […]
The following is last part of a series of five emails I sent to a local middle school during my visit to the Mars Desert Research Station as the crew geologist. Hello, Boy am I tired! Over the last few days I have done a lot of EVAs. Most of them are long too, usually […]
The following is part four of a series of five emails I sent to a local middle school during my visit to the Mars Desert Research Station as the crew geologist. Good morning! Lots of people enjoy a good breakfast in the morning, and that doesn’t change for astronauts. The problem is that it costs […]
The following is part three of a series of five emails I sent to a local middle school during my visit to the Mars Desert Research Station as the crew geologist. Hello! We have power back on now, and it looks like our power problems are a thing of the past. That can change quickly […]
The following is part two of a series of five emails I sent to a local middle school during my visit to the Mars Desert Research Station as the crew geologist. Hello again, What an amazing two days! If anything can go wrong, it definitely will. Engineers are incredibly important to have around on space […]
The following is part one of a series of five emails I sent to a local middle school during my visit to the Mars Desert Research Station as the crew geologist. Hello from Mars! I’m writing to you to tell you all about what it’s like to live and walk on the surface of another […]
Today I was invited to talk on the CBC Radio One program On the Coast regarding my involvement with the upcoming Mars Society expedition to their research station in Utah! I’m one of eight Canadians going, the only one from BC, and the Crew Geologist for our two week stay. I’m getting some last minute […]