With the 2021-22 field season at the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah winding down in the coming days, MDRS management, led by its director, Dr. Shannon Rupert, is pleased to announce the crew itinerary* for the 2022-23 field season at MDRS. Congratulations to the crews on being selected, and we look forward to hosting them “on Mars”!
2022
October 1 – 16: MDRS Work Party
October 20 – 23: [Off-Site] The 25th Annual International Mars Society Convention, Tempe, Arizona
October 24 – 28: Spaceward Bound High School
October 30 – November 12: Crew 267 (WOMARS)
November 13 – 26: Crew 268 (Mars Society All-Female Crew)
November 27 – December 10: Crew 269 (Aerospace Corporation Team)
December 11 – 17 (one-week): Crew 270 (NASA Spaceward Bound Utah Cohort 4)
December 18 – 31: Crew 271 (Mars Society Crew)
2023
January 1 – 14: Crew 272 (Purdue University)
January 15 – 28: Crew 273 (Spanish-Language Crew)
January 29 – February 11: Crew 274 (APUS ARG-1M)
February 12 – March 11: Crew 275 (SUPAERO)
March 12 – 18 (one-week): Crew 276 (C.U. MiSSE)
March 19 – 25 (one-week): Crew 277 (Class)
March 26 – April 1 (one-week): Crew 278 (Class)
April 2 – 15: Crew 279 (M.A.R.S. UC Louvain)
April 16 – 29: Crew 280 (Hypatia)
April 30 – May 13: Crew 261 (Transatlantic Mars Society)
May 14 – 27: Crew 281 (Project PoSSUM Alumni)
June 1 – 3: University Rover Challenge (URC)
June 4 – 10 (one-week): Crew 282 (Martian Biology)
June (TBD): Astronomy Team Summer Visit
June (TBD): Trash-to-Gas (NASA Kennedy Space Center)
For more details about our MDRS program, please visit: mdrs.marssociety.org.
*Please note that the crew itinerary is subject to possible change during the field season.
