 So the MDRS is the Mars Desert Research Station which is run by the Mars Society, a national organization of people who are just so passionate about space and space exploration and specifically human exploration. So they have set up a small habitat which is basically a big metal cylinder out in the Utah desert. This will be the first crew where all the members are Purdue alumni or current students. So in my case I will have the geology project this year so we'll just go around collect samples and see if we can figure out if some of those minerals are usable. We have engineering projects for navigation because there is no GPS on Mars so how we go around in case we got some storm and we can't figure out where the habitat is. We got yoga for reducing the stress of the crew and then we got a few more projects with bioengineering and biology on microbial life and plants. And of course we have the human factor so how we will interact with each other, what is the problem of spending two weeks in an enclosed environment with six other people and that's a very important part of Mars exploration and this is what MDRS is for. I have always been interested in human space exploration and that's the whole reason I came to Purdue and I think that when I got this email that you could apply to actually go on a crew I was like oh my gosh like this is my chance so I am really excited just to be pretending like I am on Mars and to like have my whole crew around me. I will be the crew engineer so I'll be kind of in charge of doing the maintenance tasks on the HAB, give the water heater brakes down, if the ATVs stop working for any reason I'll kind of be in charge of figuring out what the problem is and how we can fix it using the limited tools we have available in the habitat. I'm just looking forward to being able to do that in like a real scenario. We decided our name will be Boylers to Mars. We're all Boyler makers and we're all so excited about that. I'm Shetesh Moll and I'm crew executive officer. I'm Mark G and I'll be managing the greenhouses. I'm Justin and I'll be in charge of EVA navigation. My name is Melanie Grande and I'm the crew engineer. I'm Sam Albert and I'm the crew health and safety officer. I am Cheser and I will be the crew geologist. Hi I'm Max Fagan, I'm the Mars MDRS crew 186. Boyler to Mars!