Read my full story: buff.ly/3zgQTQf⠀ ⠀ NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project in conjunction with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute, Collins Aerospace, and Ntention have been field testing some new spacesuit technologies in Oregon’s High Desert region. Some of these sites are the same sites once used by Apollo astronauts to test their own spacesuit technology and train in its usage back in the Apollo era. SETI’s Dr. Pascal Lee notes: It was exciting to be in Oregon to revisit some of the very locations where, in 1964 and 1966, the Apollo astronauts received field training in geology and tested spacesuits.⠀ ⠀ The list of testing sites included the legacy sites of Lava Butte, Big Obsidian Lava Flow, Fort Rock, Hole in the Ground, and Yapoah Lava Flow at McKenzie Pass.⠀ ⠀ Plus, the team found some more analog sites for further testing and exploration, now that we know more about the surfaces of the Moon and even Mars than we did decades ago. Those sites included Pumice Slope at Crater Lake...