A month on 'Mars': Flags and footprints of the moon and Arctic

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A month on 'Mars': Flags and footprints of the moon and Arctic
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Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor in chief of Ad Astra magazine for the National Space Society. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration and development, including 'Space 2.0,' 'First on the Moon' and 'Innovation the NASA Way.' He has written for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, WIRED, Popular Science, Space.com, Live Science, the World Economic Forum and the Library of Congress. Rod co-authored the 'Apollo Leadership Experience' for NASA's Johnson Space Center and has produced, directed and written for The History Channel, Discovery Networks and Disney.

Rod Pyle is a space historian and author who has created and offered executive leadership and innovation training at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Rod has received endorsements and recognition from the outgoing Deputy Director of NASA, Johnson Space Center's Chief Knowledge Officer for his work.

There's a proposed phenomenon in long-duration missions in distant outposts known as third quarter syndrome. In essence, it is a time when people become increasingly aware the routines, habits, and quirks of others, while the end of the mission is still far off. Some crew members begin to turn inward, become less engaged, may suffer from depression, and in some cases, even become violent.

With 24 summers' experience at his HMP station, and a winter-over in the Antarctic, Pascal has contrived various methods to stave off the inevitable ennui. There are talks on topics relevant to our experience given on some evenings. On other nights we may gather around a laptop top watch a film — when learning of this, I of course immediately downloaded a copy of John Carpenter's 1982 polar horror classic,".

It was in that spirit that my first HPM Summer Campaign 2022 flag project was born. I looked high and low to find something appropriate to present to Pascal that would be emblematic of this year's project. In the end, I found a sledging flag from Ernest Shackleton's 1907 effort to reach the South Pole, in which he was forced to turn back just under 100 miles from his goal.

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