This summer was one of adventure for the entire SAM crew.
Kai and Trent enjoyed a trip down the Grand Canyon mid-May with directors and volunteers for the National Space Society, the final voyage of this seasonal journey in memory of the incredible (and greatly missed) Anita Gale who departed planet Earth in May 2024.
Kai and Colleen attended the National Geographic Society’s Explorers Fest and then ventured on to Mongolia for six weeks, teaching English and exploring the foot of the country’s largest glacier, and kayaking wild rivers.
Kai Nevers and his partner Kate spent a month traveling around Greece and Italy … dnding the trip with a 1 week hut-to-hut hike in the Dolomites.
Trent was wreck diving with the Explorers Club in the Great Salt Lakes.
Luna enjoyed time with family in rural Maine and sought refuge from the summer heat in Northern Arizona.
Griffin took his first trip overseas and presented two papers for SAM at ICES 2025, Prague.
Atila explored the beaches and jungle of his home country Peru.
Bindhu attended the Humans to the Moon and Mars summit in Washington D.C. followed by the Aerospace Medical Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, related to the SAM MedBay project. She visited a colleague from the Analog Astronaut Conference in England, where she rode her first wave on a surf board, visited the Eden Project, and prehistoric Stonehenge.
Nathan explored lava tubes in Hawaii.
Shantano got his first, single author paper accepted to the CAIP conference, presented at the Sagan Summer Workshop for a hands-on project on occurence rate of exoplanets, and captured a thunderstorm and Saturn’s moon Titan on his phone.
And Matthias ventured to Devon Island with the Mars Society as XO for the Advance Team to prepare the Flashline station for Missions 17 and 18.
And somehow, despite the incredible travel, we got a lot done at SAM!
