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AFIT Alum Selected for Simulated Mission to Mars

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2014

 

AFIT alum Mr. Edward Fix, (M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1987), was selected by NASA and the University of Hawaii as one of nine team members to participate in a long duration simulated mission to Mars called the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS).  In September, six of the nine will be selected as the mission crew.  This eight-month mission, beginning in October 2014, is the third in a series for NASA; the first two missions were each four months long, and the fourth will be 12 months.

During this mission, the team will be engaged in a broad variety of research, exploration, engineering, and outreach activities, as well as exercising and carrying out routine housekeeping chores.  The research is being conducted for NASA by the University of Hawaii, using a 1,000 square foot domed habitat at 8,000 ft elevation in an abandoned quarry on the northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii where the crew will reside for the duration of the mission. 

Previous to this selection, Mr. Fix was commissioned as an Air Force officer in 1979, served as a B-52 co-pilot, aircraft commander and flight commander, AFIT student, technical program research leader and first-level supervisor in the Human Effectiveness Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory.  After retiring from the Air Force in 1998, Mr. Fix continued to serve the DoD as a defense contractor.
 


AFIT alum Mr. Edward Fix selected as one of nine team members to participate in a long duration simulated mission to Mars

 

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