Hello Everyone, Sorry I have been away so long. I have been working on a new project called HI-SEAS: Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. I will be spending 4 months living in a Mars simulated environment in Hawaii. The study takes place from April – August, 2013. I am the education outreach officer for [...]

I had a terrific time presenting at the Phoenix Comicon. I gave two panels. The first was on my 2009 NASA astronaut experience. At first I didn’t think people would be interested but my comicon contact assured me that the Sci-fi crowd cared equally about both the fictional and real world of space exploration. My [...]

I am currently in Houston, Texas so I spent the day at Johnson Space Center. I signed up for the level 9 tour. What does that mean? Well, the web page said I would get a behind the scenes look at what the astronauts do. Some of you know that I have put my application [...]