David Levine has been selected as a member of Crew 88 at the Mars Desert Research Station run by the Mars Society.

MDRS is a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert where Levine will serve as a crewman Journalist together with Commander Stephen F. Wheeler, Ph.D., Executive Officer/Engineer Laksen Sirimanne, Health & Safety Officer Bianca Nowak, Astronomer Paul McCall, and Biologist Diego Urbina. Their mission will run January 9-23, 2010.

You’ll be able to follow this latter-day Martian chronicle on David Levine’s LiveJournal.