1. The Road to Mars as a member of Mars Desert Research Station Crew 8 By Phil Turek

2. Earth Mars Ambassadors Three phase plan to improve the quality of life on Earth. EARTH Teams of students explore Earth. MARS The best teams from Earth cultivate new life on Mars. EARTH Ambassadors from Mars help improve life on Earth.

3. Planetary Scientist from Finland Sini Merikalio

4. Sini on horseback

5. Dusty Samouce Retired NASA Operations Engineer

6. Dusty’s gyrocopter

7. Derek Smith Geologist from Canada

8. Ed Fisher Mechanical Engineer from NYC

9. Sara Goudarzi Biomedical Engineer from Rutgers University

10. MDRS Crew 8

11. MDRS in Utah

12. MDRS view

13. Upper floor plan

14. Lower floor plan

15. Ed prepping Derek

16. Off on an ATV excursion

17. Exploring a box canyon

18. Sini drives us out of it

19. Discussing options

20. An unexpected visitor

21. Phil and Rustle

22. Noting Rustle’s demise

23. Tombstone

24. The Greening of Mars

25. Seedlings are brought out

26. to a waiting ATV

27. Sini waits for Dusty’s cargo

28. A box of seedlings

29. Off on the day’s excursion

30. A spot is picked for planting

31. A small seedling is planted

32. Which grows

33. And grows

35. At another site

36. Another seedling

37. Is carefully planted

38. Just so

39. With a bit of water

40. Where it grows

41. And grows

43. Vision from the past

44. Derek gazing at Earth

45. Looking through a microscope

46. Dusty pointing his telescope

47. Space Cadet

48. Older space cadet

49. Watching a sunset on Mars

50. Spacesuited Shadows

51. The public directly participates

52. Athena Student Interns Program NASA is sending two rovers to Mars this spring and you and your students can be part of the exciting mission from launch through landed operations! The Athena Student Interns Program (ASIP) is designed to give a creative, dedicated group of high school students from across the nation the chance to join the scientists of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission in exploring the Red Planet.

53. Direct student participation

54. Vacancy Announcement Number: JS03E0037 - Johnson Space Center Position: Educator Astronaut GS-0801-11 / Educator Astronaut GS- 0801-12 / Educator Astronaut GS-0801-13 Johnson Space Center Vacancy Announcement Number: JS03E0037 Educator Astronaut Announcement