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FIU grad is aspiring astronaut

As part of his FIU graduate work and thanks to the Florida Space Grant Consortium, Paul McCall -- an aspiring astronaut -- is taking his first steps as he prepares to eventually go to space, maybe even Mars one day.

Paul is currently in the Utah desert working in the Mars Desert Research Station of the Mars Society. There Paul and his crew, of which he is the youngest astronaut in training, are conducting surface simulations in a Mars environment. The crew is there doing geological, biological and life sciences research.

Among the crew working with Paul McCall (that's PMC researching on the left), are two pilots, an R&D executive of a biomedical company, a teacher from Belgium, a Colombian engineer that works for the European Space Agency and an award-winning science fiction author.

Here are some websites to visit with more info on what Paul and his crew are up to.

To view their daily reports and images click here: Mars reports

 

 

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