FMARS Sponsors	Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station Mission Support (Click Here for the FMARS Mission Support site) Dr. Tony Muscatello Mission Support Director Dr. Tony Muscatello has over 20 years experience in advanced chemical research, most recently in ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization) for Mars exploration. He is a former Los Alamos National Laboratory staff member and worked for Rockwell International before that. At Pioneer, Tony has served as member of teams working on the Mars Methanol In-Situ Propellant Production (MMISPP), Mars Aromatics, Hydrocarbon, and Olefin Synthesis System (MAHOSS), Nitrous Oxide Based Oxygen Supply System (NOBOSS), and the Carbon Monoxide Metal Oxide Reduction System (COMORS) (oxygen extraction from lunar and martian regolith) research projects. He is Principle Investigator on the NASA Phase II SBIR Methane to Aromatics on Mars (METAMARS) project. Tony is a founding member of the Mars Society, a member of the Steering Committee, and has been coordinating Mission Support for the past two years. Bill Nelson CAPCOM Bill Nelson was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1963. He was raised in Springfield and now resides in Boulder, Colorado. A lifelong spaceflight enthusiast, he hosted a Public Access Television program about spaceflight for five years and a radio program about spaceflight for one year. He currently serves as president of the Front Range L5 Chapter of the National Space Society, and served on the Colorado Steering Committee which ran the NSS International Space Development Conference. Julie A. Schmiedlin Edwards Science Officer Julie Edwards is a laboratory researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor MI. Her interests include Martian Astrobiology (search for life on Mars), Space Architecture (laboratory design for a Mars habitat or pressurized rover), and CELSS and life support (greenhouse structure and function). Julie is a founding member of the Mars Society and secretary of the Michigan Mars Society chapter. Paul Graham Engineering Officer Paul Graham is a widely experienced member of the team, with work in many engineering and most construction fields. His other interests include writing, photography, theater & acting, mountaineering and other outdoor activities, SCUBA diving, and he is a Ham radio operator (KC0IFZ). Paul is currently the CTO of Alpine Systems, Ltd. a computer consulting firm, and the Head of R&D of the newly founded aerospace division. Eric Boethin Liaison / Backup CAPCOM Eric Boethin was born in 1970, and has been a lifelong enthusiast of spaceflight. He currently is a member of the Front Range L-5 chapter of the National Space Society, having served as an elected officer of the chapter alternately as treasurer and secretary from 1996 to 2001. He continues to engage in various volunteer work in the space movement, and attends many space functions such as the International Space Development Conference. He has a credential equivalent of a master's degree in computer technology, and works in the industry as a consultant, as well as a computer tutor and proctor for the disabled at a local college. Brad Jarvis Journalist Brad Jarvis is a founding member of the Mars Society, and an active member of the Rocky Mountain Mars Society. He has served on the chapter Steering Committee and as Chapter Contact. He is a technical writer, having worked previously as a test engineer and educational consultant. He has been an amateur astronomer for over thirty years, the last ten of those years as an active member of the Northern Colorado Astronomical Society. Patty Pietu Space Suit Tailor Hello Future Martians, I am a costumer, jeweler, artist, and massage therapist. I am interested in muscle application in space travel. More practically, I help design and construct the material part and back pack of the analog spacesuits used on Devon Island and at the MDRS, with a great back up crew of Mars Society volunteers! Already a Trekkie, it was a short trip for me to take imagination to reality. Hopefully the trip to Mars is as short.
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