Dr. Zubrin is the founder and President of the Mars Society, as well as a member of the organization's Board of Directors.

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Even so, the Mars Society, an organisation set up to lobby for such a mission, plans to contribute a field laboratory to the Devon Island station.

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In the summer of 2000, the Mars Society, a group of scientists, engineers and astronauts, will open its Mars Arctic research station in the Canadian high Arctic.

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The Mars Society is a privately funded organization dedicated to promoting human exploration of the Red Planet, and the recent find will give the society's president Dr Robert Zubrin and his team more hope for a manned mission.

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"The test was a resounding success", said Ben Jarvis of the Mars Advanced Rocketry Society (Mars), Britain's longest-running rocketry group.

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