EVA suits for Utah, and the capital to keep the analog alive

Core Member · Design & Engineering · Mongolia / MDRS · mars-v.com ↗

Engineering at the suit level and fundraising at national scale, the same program asked for both.

$5.8M raised · 4,500+ stakeholders · 8,000 km campaigns · 1,000+ lecture attendees

MARS-V program visual — Mars-analog programMDRS · EVA

Design & engineering

As a core member I led EVA-suit research and prototyping with UCCS scientists for Utah’s Mars Desert Research Station — concept suit design, habitat visualization, and the field hardware that makes an analog crew’s time outside the habitat believable as practice, not costume.

Capital & public story

In parallel I raised $5.8M in commitments across more than 4,500 stakeholders and 8,000 kilometers of in-person campaigns. The public face of that effort included MARS-V Spot, a lecture to more than a thousand people, and national documentary coverage that carried the analog story beyond the desert.

Concept EVA spacesuit design with white and charcoal panels — EVA suit concept · white / charcoal suit system

Astronaut approaching a modular Mars habitat under Mongolian and MARS flags — Habitat & EVA concept · Mars-analog station

MARS-V crew in prototype EVA suits at a Mars-analog desert site — Field EVA suits · Mars-analog campaign

Crew in EVA suits holding the MARSA flag on analog terrain — MARSA field crew · suit prototypes

MARS-V crew wearing the EVA suit prototype in desert terrain — Crew in the EVA suit I designed · Mars-analog field campaign

Layered red and purple badlands under a sunset sky, Mars-analog terrain — Analog terrain · Mars-like badlands