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A simulated Mars mission kicks off Saturday (Feb. 7) in Utah, and its seven crewmembers hope the experience helps them prepare for a real Red Planet expedition a decade from now.

All seven explorers who will spend two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), near the Utah town of Hanksville are astronaut candidates for the Mars One project, which aims to launch four pioneers to the Red Planet in 2024 as the vanguard of a permanent colony.

"Its not a coincidence that the whole crew is comprised of Mars One candidates that was by design," said crewmember Kellie Gerardi, business development specialist at California-based aerospace firm Masten Space Systems. [Mock Mars Mission Photos: Life on a Simulated Red Planet]

"I can only speak for myself, but my participation on a Mars One crew was an effort to show that there is so much more behind the candidates," Gerardi told Space.com via email. "Were not a group of planetary malcontents who are ready to flip the bird at Earth and hop on a rocket. My crew is a group of industry professionals, including MEDVAC pilots, engineers, doctors and NASA researchers who recognize that space settlement is feasible in our lifetimes."

MDRS is run by the Mars Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. MDRS missions aim to bring that ambitious goal closer to reality, by helping our species prepare for the rigors of living beyond Earth.

Toward this end, Gerardi and her colleagues the 149th crew to use the facility will perform a number of different research projects. The focus will be on in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) techniques, which could help an off-Earth settlement become more self-sufficient.

One study will investigate the use of 3D printing, while an "insect palatability experiment" will look at taking advantage of a plentiful but underutilized source of protein. And then there's the "proof of beer" study, which will test the viability of sorghum seeds and hops rhizomes in simulated Mars soil.

"The academic reasoning is that sorghum is a grain of high nutritional value with relatively low water needs, and hops are used as a medicinal herb," Gerardi said. "The fun reasoning is that yeast has already been sent to space, so if we prove germination and root establishment of two other constituent ingredients of beer, we have essentially proved that one can produce beer on Mars."

"Of course, it would probably be in our best interest to taste the closest terrestrial analog to this beer while were there," she added. "I'm pushing for that part of the 'research' to take place on my birthday, which falls right in the middle of our Crew rotation."

MDRS Crew 149 is led by commander Paul Bakken. The other crewmembers, in addition to Gerardi, are Ken Sullivan, Pamela Nicoletatos, Elena Miscodan, Takeshi Naganuma and Ann-Sofie Schreurs. Bakken, Gerardi and Sullivan are American, Nicoletatos is Canadian, Miscodan is from Romania, Naganuma is Japanese and Schreurs is German.

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After listening to PresidentObamas mostrecent State of the (Dis)Union speech last Tuesdaynight, I couldnt help thinking,Id sure like to be Scott Kelly.

Just to remind you (sincenone of the TV commentatorsbothered to point thisout), Kelly has been picked tobecome the first U.S. astronautfrom NASA to spend a year inspace possibly a prep for afuture voyage to Mars.

Remember NASA? Thatsthe National AeronauticsSpace Administration, althoughyou wouldnt knowthat from a quick perusal ofthe NASA website. But I dontblame them. Our space agencyhas lost much of its hype sinceour government forced it toreinvent itself after discontinuingfunding of humanflights beyond our atmosphere,although that could changesoon.

But I digress.

Kelly will be blasting off inMarch, appropriately enough,the month we celebrate St.Patricks Day, and for our manin space, it will be the very tiptop of the morning when hegoes on his way.

Ironically, as noted by thewebsite space.com, Kelly isscheduled to launch on a RussianSoyuz spacecraft to theInternational Space Stationwhere he and cosmonautMikhail Kornienko will liveand work on the orbiting outpostfor one year.

I wonder what ComradePutin has to say about this. Icertainly hope the leader of allthe Russias (including Crimea)was at least consulted. Giventhe Kremlins expansionistpolicy, lets hope that Putindoesnt extend the Russianempires grasp to holding theSpace Station and the Americanwithin hostage. Remember,the U.S. governmentspolicy is no ransom payments.

Despite the potential risk,Id still trade places with Kellybecause hes in the forefront ofwhat the President characterizedin his address as being ina race for the kind of discoveriesthat unleash new jobs pushing out into the SolarSystem not just to visit, but tostay (my emphasis).

This means colonization,folks. No question about it.

Obama and his advisers arefirm believers in global climatechange and they know thatthe timeline for Planet Earth israpidly winding down, thanksto out-of-control development,coupled with overpopulationand the widening of incomeinequality.

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It's not hard to see that the future of space exploration and colonization belongs to the corporations. Even now, private companies are already setting their sights on the sky and beyond, looking toward the next lucrative industry. Suffice it to say, space is going to be big business.

It's this premise that drives Offworld Trading Company, the upcoming real-time strategy game from Mohawk Games and Stardock Entertainment, headed to Steam's Early Access program on February 12.

Offworld Trading Company places you in the role of one such upstart company, where the resource-rich surface of Mars is waiting to be harvested in a bid to become the biggest business on the red planet.

But Offworld Trading Company isn't your typical sci-fi strategy game. Lead by Civillization 4 designer Soren Johnson, Mohawk Games has ditched the traditional well-worn path of expansion and conquest through superior firepower in favor of victory through business savvy and cold, hard cash.

Of course, Offworld Trading Company will feature 8-player online competition, free-form skirmishes against the AI, and a dynamic single-player campaign thatstrings missions together with persistent upgrades between them. However, that's where the similarities to traditional military RTS games begin to fade. You'll never fire a shot in Offworld Trading Company. As the saying goes, it's just business.

If Offworld Trading Company is beginning to sound like something decidedly different in the strategy space, it's because that's the point. Speaking with IGN, Soren Johnson revealed that Mohawk's strategy was to take what they loved about real-time strategy games and flesh it out with new mechanics.

We wanted a game that fit [the RTS] format but used an entirely different mechanic.

"RTS games have hit a very set pattern. They may have a different setting, but in many ways, they're kind of the same game," Johnson said. "This is coming from a team that really likes RTS Games. We like Company of Heroes, StarCraft, Age of Empires. We love that format. We think that's a great way to play games.

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