{"id":101,"date":"2010-01-19T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/?p=101"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:04:44","slug":"commanders-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Commander&#8217;s Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/brian_head_eva9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/brian_head_eva9-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brian on EVA at FMARS on Devon Island, Canada\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/brian_head_eva9-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/brian_head_eva9-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/brian_head_eva9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Welcome to the MDRS Crew 89 website!  I hope you enjoy following our mission and learn something about what it takes to live on Mars.  My name is <a href=\"http:\/\/astronautforhire.com\/\">Brian Shiro<\/a>, and I am the Commander for the 89th crew of the <a title=\"Mars Desert Research Station\" href=\"http:\/\/desert.marssociety.org\/\">Mars Desert Research Station<\/a> (MDRS).  My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/?page_id=2\">crew<\/a> and I will inhabit the simulated Mars habitat (the &#8220;Hab&#8221;) from 23 January through 6 February 2010.  Previously, I served as Geophysicist on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmars2009.org\/\">2009 FMARS-12 expedition<\/a>, and I am very excited to be commanding my first mission on analog Mars.<\/p>\n<p>In the three months since <a title=\"The Mars Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/\">The Mars Society<\/a> first selected all of us for this amazing opportunity, our crew has gotten to know each other over many emails and phone calls.  We have planned an exciting lineup of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/?page_id=73\">research projects<\/a> encompassing astronomy, biology, engineering, and geology.  The common goal underlying all of our efforts is the advancement of human Mars exploration.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to spoil the surprise for you, so you&#8217;ll have to tune in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/\">this blog<\/a> or check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/desert.marssociety.org\/MDRS\/fs09\/\">daily reports and photos<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>On to Mars!<br \/>\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/mdrs_crew89\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}