The National Space Society recently awarded a $15,000 grant to the Haughton-Mars Project (@HMP) in support of their 2024 Apollo Fellowship and #STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) #education activities. The @nss grant funds are derived from a 2019 grant from the Club For the Future.

The Haughton-Mars Project is a @NASA and private sector-supported, U.S.-based international #planetaryanalog field research project sited on #DevonIsland in the High Arctic. It is dedicated to advancing the future scientific exploration of the Moon and Mars by robotic systems and humans. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island and largest single expanse of polar desert on our planet. The terrain is not snowy or icy in the project’s summer season, but rather a wide, largely lifeless expanse of red rock, physically mimicking the surface of #Mars.

“The Haughton-Mars Project is a global leader in planetary analog field science and exploration, and I am glad that the NSS is able to contribute to, and partner in, the project’s Apollo Fellowship and other STEM education activities,” said Dale Skran, COO of the National Space Society. “Well-designed Mars analog field work supports both the exploration and eventual human settlement of Mars.”

Established in 1997, the HMP is led by @pascalleetweets, planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, @MarsInstitute, and @NASAAmes Research Center, and professor of planetary sciences at @KeplerUni.
#STEM #education