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High School Students: Design Your Own Mission to Mars This Summer

The Mars Society is excited to announce the Fifth Annual International Mission to Mars Engineering Design Competition, a dynamic virtual summer program open to high school students ages 13–19 worldwide. The program will run June 8 through July 10, 2026, offering students an immersive opportunity to tackle real-world challenges related to human exploration of the Red Planet. During this five-week competition, students will think and work like aerospace engineers and mission planners by designing a comprehensive human mission to Mars… READ MORE >

Alpha School Collaboration & Community Crowdfunding Enhance MDRS in Utah

The Mars Society would like to extend its sincere thanks to Alpha School, an AI-powered private K–12 school network operating in Texas, Florida, Arizona, California and several other states, for its recent collaboration at our Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah. As part of a filming project by Limitless Productions at MDRS featuring three Alpha School students, the production company made significant updates to the interior of the habitat to create a more immersive, Mars-like environment.  These enhancements included… READ MORE >

Aerospace Engineer Braves the Arctic to Support the Next Chapter of Space Exploration

By The Aerospace Corporation, January 29, 2026 Space is an unforgiving, hostile environment — defined by vacuum, radiation and extreme temperatures — making human spaceflight an inherently challenging and high-risk endeavor where even small failures can have catastrophic consequences. To confront those realities before launch, researchers conduct astronaut analogs: simulated missions run in extreme Earth environments that mirror the operational and environmental challenges of other worlds. One such mission recently sent Aerospace engineering specialist Trevor Jahn to the [Flashline] Mars… READ MORE >