This time last year at the conclusion of the Pisces One Expedition, all of my crew commented on the fact that there was no visual aid to help prepare them for their MDRS mission. Their second comment (echoed by many crew's in the remainder of last years field season), was the lack of up todate accurately surveyed roadmaps of the MDRS area. Project MAST (Mars Analogue Simulation Trainer) was borne as a result, with the first test images to see if it was feasible being taken on the last day of MDRS Crew 35.

In the twelve months since, I have returned to MDRS on three missions, two privately funded efforts last summer and fall (Project's FLAME and MAST) and now on MDRS Crew 35 at Peter Kokh invitation. Each visit saw me thundering an ATV around the MDRS road network, taking 100s of photo's on each EVA and making GPS readings. Close to 4,000 photographs will make up the completed Virtual Reality program that is Project MAST - the MDRS version. In the raw form, it totals over 1.65 gigabytes of data.

For Project MAST to be use able as a training aid, it was also required that I re plot all the MDRS roads on the old Crew 22 Roadmap into their current physical locations and the result was the fairly accurate Crew 35 roadmap. The latest version of this is now available on the MDRS Engineering website for crews, educators, students and Mars Society members world wide to download and follow the adventures of our analogue Mars simulation crews. Special thanks to Dr Jan Osberg and Crew 37 for their GPS track data of Copernicus West and South, Brahe Hwy, Sagan Street and Lowell Hwy north and south which enabled most of the initial re plotting.

In collaboration with Dr Jan Osberg of Georgia Tech, Project MAST has undertaken updating and maintaining the MDRS way points database. Special thanks to our student volunteer assistant Elizabeth Tang for all of her efforts and time put into the consolidation of the way points database to eliminate duplications, multiple names for the same place and other bugs which have crept in over the years. This revised document will be available shortly on the ET web site for downloading as soon as she is finished and Jan and I have had a chance to review it.

I wish to thank the following individuals for their unwavering support of Project MAST, first and foremost my wife Anne, who has endured me living on a laptop for all of my spare time in the past 9 months while turning a dream into reality, the Moon Society President Peter Kokh, for inviting me onto his crew, fellow TMS Flight Surgeon staff member RN William Fung-Scharz and finally two world class friends who have stood by me through the thick and thin of it all, Engineering Team Coordinator Paul Graham and MDRS's Hanksville base support manager Don Foutz and his wonderful family.

Finally special thanks to my "little sister" friend Veronica Zabala for inviting me to join her and her family on Project FLAME and to Tony Muscatello, for arranging permission for Project MAST to visit and use the MDRS HAB last fall, to gather much of the material needed to complete this portion of the MAST Project.

As I said above, this is only the MDRS version. There are three more analogue stations out there requiring Project MAST surveying if we are to send to them crews who are fully prepared for the adventure of a life time.

Project MAST, the MDRS version CD will go on sale shortly with a portion of the proceeds being donate towards the further development of Mars Society analogue research stations, to help fund our efforts to get human foot prints on the Red Planet sooner then later.