If you follow me on Twitter or Pinterest, you probably know that I have a passion for astronomy, science fiction, and science fact, among other interests. In particular, I like things Martian. War of the Worlds, Invaders from Mars, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, and It! The Terror From Beyond Space … I saw and enjoyed them all multiple times as a kid.
NZ Herald
Kiwis share their Mars experience: After 14 days wearing spacesuits in a simulated mission, the first Kiwis sent to live on "Mars" have spoken of their experiences in an alien environment. The six-person crew of three men and three women entered a simulated spacecraft at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah on April 21, as the KiwiMars team. During the two-week expedition they lived in a cramped 10m-wide, two-storey "environment" that included a greenhouse and an observatory, to replicate what a mission to Mars could be like. Living in close quarters in an unfamiliar environment was challenging, admitted mission commander Haritina Mogosanu, who assembled the crew in six months.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10819192
US Embassy
KIWIS ON MARS May 9, 2012
http://blogs.newzealand.usembassy.gov/ambassador/2012/05/spaceward-bound/
TV3
A team of intrepid New Zealanders is about to undergo the ultimate dress rehearsal for living on Mars.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwis-head-to-Mars-in-Utah/tabid/1216/articleID/246052/Default.aspx
A group of Kiwis has just returned from an out of this world experience, without even leaving the planet.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwis-experience-life-on-almost-Mars/tabid/1216/articleID/261803/Default.aspx
TVNZ
KiwiMars (Hari & Bruce) Good Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSMC96Jbpg
From MDRS with National Radio
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons
Mike Bodnar on National radio - 8 months to Mars
Former broadcaster and now freelance Communications Consultant Mike Bodnar. In between engagements he writes and is involved in video production. He has recently returned from the Mars Desert Research Station (MRDS) in Utah where he spent two weeks living in an eight metre diameter, two story cylindrical structure, with five others, to simulate what it might be like on Mars.
With Elf Eldridge on TOSP
http://archive.org/details/Tosp17
This week, aimee was away in Melbourne at the inagural AdaCamp barcamp. So Elf brought in his good friend Haritina Mogosanu, who works with KiwiSpace and World Space Week, to co-host with him. They talked about the number of planets in our galaxy, molecular time travel, calculating what's in the universe, 'getting' science (or not), KiwiMars 2012, and aimee reports back from AdaCamp.