This post was written on our first day in simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station. Our two-week mission at MDRS in January 2013 served as preparation for the four-month HI-SEAS mission in April. We staggered our arrival at … Continue reading
This past week I’ve been in southern Utah, in a simulated Mars habitat with my HI-SEAS crew. We’re living and working in the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), practicing, in effect, our upcoming four-month mission in Hawaii. This means we’re … Continue reading
Inspired by others’ lists of year-end roundups, I cobbled together my own, Twitter-style. The collected Tweets are embedded below. In all honesty this isn’t really a year-end list. I did not dig through the digital archives. I did not consider … Continue reading
Earlier this year, I visited Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to report a story for US News & World Report’s Best Hospitals issue. My assignment: meet heart patients, talk to surgeons, observe operations, and then write about it. The first procedure I … Continue reading
Some years ago, I found NASA footage of the urine-recycling system on the International Space Station. I edited it down to keep the good bits and posted the ~2 minute video on YouTube. The part that I really loved about … Continue reading