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spotlight: Fifty years after Sputnik, MIT muses on Mars | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Fifty years ago, the launch of Sputnik ushered in the dawn of the Space Age. Today a new generation looks to the sky and dreams of the day that we set foot on Mars. |
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Mars Gravity Biosatellite program Students at MIT and Georgia Tech are working to make those dreams of Mars a reality. The Mars Gravity Biosatellite program is a ground-breaking undertaking to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals, taking the first step towards human missions to Mars - and beyond. Data from this mission will make a significant contribution to our understanding of fundamental space biology and greatly advance human space exploration. Discovery Channel Canada is featuring a blog written by the MIT team. Check it out and find out more about how students can help put humans on Mars: http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/3749/blog-space-mice-to-live-in-simulated-mars-gravity.aspx Want to help take the first step towards human exploration of Mars? Participate in this landmark mission through yournameintospace.org, a novel fundraiser that allows anyone to put pictures, logos or messages on the Mars Gravity Biosatellite, and support development of the spacecraft. To learn more about how students are advancing human space exploration, check out http://www.marsgravity.org. Untitled Mars (a new play in progress) Friday October 5, 7:30 pm MIT Museum, 360 Space 265 Massachusetts Ave, Building N51-100 How would you feel about moving to Mars? knowing that you might not be coming back? Ever. Through a documentary-style cinema-vérité approach, Untitled Mars puts the scientists who are working to make life on the Red Planet a reality alongside some of the science fiction that has captured our imagination for over a century. It's Science vs. Fiction in this new work for six performers and a duct-taped-together simulated Martian environment--a story about the processes leading up to putting human life on Mars--and the schizophrenic pseudo-reality of what happens once we're there. Untitled Mars (this title may change) is a work-in-progress performance presented by MIT's Theater Arts Department. With Bianca Farrell, Sean Faulk, Jack Hill, Zahra Khan, Jonas Kubilius, Sophie Monahan, and C.S. Wong, with scenic design from Sarah Gumlak, dramaturgy by Hui Ying Wen and Lisa Messeri, and interviews with Zahra Kahn and friends, with production support by Maura Courdial and MIT Dramashop, directed by Jay Scheib. Related links Discovery Channel blog: 50 years after Sputnik satellite launches within students reach NASA's Sputnik website The Smithsonian Institution on Sputnik |
 Your name in space: Help students at MIT and Georgia Tech make dreams of Mars a reality
 Untitled Mars: MIT freshmen Jack Hill and Sean Faulk perform in this sci-fi mockumentary, Friday at 7:30pm |
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