MDRS Crew 43
January 29 - February 11, 2006

Name	Speciality
Alain Souchier	Commander
Richard Heidmann	Executive Officer
Pierre Brulhet	Crew Engineer & Architect
Anne Pacros	EVA & Scientific Support
Jérémie Geoffray	Crew Engineer n°2
Loïc de La Mornais	Crew TV Journalist
Olivier Walter	Crew Architect

Alain Souchier	Alain Souchier was born in 1947 in Paris. Since his childhood he was interested in astronomy starting observing the sky with a home built telescope at 10. In 1957 the space race started, and Alain followed all the steps leading to the moon landing in 1969 (and launched more than one hundred little rockets himself). He graduated in engineering in 1970 with an aerospace specialization and started to work on rocket liquid propulsion the same year at SEP, which became later on part of Snecma, a company now belonging to the SAFRAN aerospace group. Alain participated in the development of the Ariane engines and propulsion systems for the various European launcher generations Ariane 1 to Ariane 5 from 1970 to 1998. In 1986 he wrote a book on the Ariane program. In 1988 and 1990 he cumulated more than one hour of weightlessness in parabolic flights. He is presently Program Manager for future rocket engines at Snecma Space Engine Division in Vernon. In 1999 he was one of the co-founders of the Mars Society French Chapter. In 2001 he developed and started testing a Cliff Reconnaissance Vehicle demonstrator to assess what could be the use of such a vehicle to help astronauts exploring Martian cliffs. Various versions of this vehicle have been tested at MDRS in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Alain was a crewmember in MDRS 7 in 2002.
Richard Heidmann	Richard Heidmann began his career as a rocket propulsion engineer just in time to participate to the genesis of the Ariane launcher project. When this program started, he then specialized in system studies. After a few years in military applications of propulsion, he came back to launchers at the start of the Ariane 5 rocket development, as the deputy manager of liquid propulsion engineering teams of the SEP Company. Then he was in charge of Quality, and then director of programs. In 1995 he came to the headquarters of SEP (later Snecma), first as Quality auditor and then in charge of Research and Technology strategy evaluation for the Snecma group. He retired in 2002, but still participates in various working groups about space propulsion and exploration. He is a lecturer for the International Space University. His interest in Mars was lit by the first successful approach of the planet (Mariner 4, 1965) and reinforced by the chance of a vivid observation of the perihelic opposition of August 1971. He staid tuned to Mars discovery all along the successive space missions, waiting for the great decision. So that when Robert Zubrin convened the Mars Society founding convention in 1998, he was there (he holds the card # 46!). He then was one of the founding members of the French chapter, which he has been leading since.
Pierre Brulhet	Pierre Brulhet was born in 1971 in France. He is an architect and works in an architect's office in Paris. He created a Martian base for his diploma in 1999. After that he joined the French Chapter of the Mars Society (Association Planète Mars). In january 2002, with the participation of A.P.M, Pierre, Olivier Walter and their architecture students exhibited the projects of Martian bases (interactive CD, 3D films, panels) at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. A few months later, Pierre joined the European chapters working on the Euro-Mars habitat inside lay out definition. In September 2002, he held a conference with A.P.M at CNES Paris, about "Architecture and concepts" and "the Euro-Mars simulated habitat project; the French concept; the European project" with Olivier Walter. In 2005, Pierre realized a Martian base model (1/40) with a design school (Strate College Designer in Issy-les-Moulineaux). The model was exhibited in many different places (Le Bourget airshow at the EADS stand, Cité de l'espace in Toulouse - France). Today a first design of Euro-Mars has been achieved. Pierre Brulhet, with Olivier Walter, gives lectures and conferences and conducts a study with a group of students from the Strate College Designer, under the direction of Francis Winisdoerfer (EADS space architect), on the Euro-Mars base project for installation in Iceland
Anne Pacros	Anne Pacros was born in France and has been interested in human spaceflight since high school. Her dream is to be an astronaut some day! After her undergraduate studies in Engineering at Ecole Centrale Paris, France, she obtained a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then she started her professional life back in France at Snecma, working on VINCI, the future upper stage engine for the Ariane 5 rocket. She joined the French Chapter of the Mars Society ("Planète Mars"). In the summer of 2004, she participated in the International Space University Summer Session, which was actually a Winter Session since it was held in Adelaide, Australia. That is where Mona Lisa was born! In January 2005, Anne left Snecma to join the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. She now works in the International Space Station Utilization Division where she is coordinating the scientific projects in the field of Fluid Physics and Heat Transfer. As such, she was given the opportunity to participate in a parabolic flight campaign. In terms of extra-curricular activities, she holds a private pilot's licence and enjoys sports (judo, basketball, scuba diving) and dancing. She is also (trying to) sing in a choir and in a rock band! She was a crewmember in MDRS 23 and commander for MDRS 40.
Jérémie Geoffray	Jérémie Geoffray was born in 1985 in France. At the age of 8, he starts looking to the Moon and the stars with his grandfather telescope, and decides some years later that he wants to have a scientific career. He aims at working on space programs, and dreams to leave the Earth one day. In 2003 he joins the Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris (ISEP), an electronics engineering college. He wants to continue his studies after ISEP with a specialization in Astronautics. He became really thrilled by Mars at 16 when he read for the first time the K.S. Robinson's Martian Trilogy, and joined the French Chapter of the Mars Society (Planète Mars) in April 2005. Now he communicates his passion around him by organizing conferences about Mars and Astronomy in general
Loïc de La Mornais	Loïc de La Mornais was born in 1974 in France. He is a journalist and work for the french national television France 2 as a reporter. After undergraduate degree in political studies at Sciences Po Paris, he graduated in journalism at the Superior Journalism School of Lille. Interested in aviation and space since his childhood, he worked as a student in the CNES (french space agency, astronaut media operations) in 1996 and has begun his career by working for science magazines: he reported from the Star City (astronaut training), Russia, and experienced as a journalist a parabolic flight campaign in 1997. He has been foreign correspondent in Cairo, Egypt, for two years before joining France 2 in 2000. As a TV reporter, specialized in "hot news", he covered various situations and countries as tsunami in Sri Lanka, second Gulf War, fightings in Gaza and Israel or earthquake in Algeria, and many other reports in China, Kurdistan, Egypt, United States, Greece, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, etc... He holds a private license pilot, is a licensed scuba diver and have been sky diving captain of his university parachutism team.
Olivier Walter	Olivier Walter was born in 1965 in France. He is an architect and works in Paris. He teaches architecture at the school "Paris val de Seine" in particular in the field of "extreme environment habitat" to four year undergraduates. The Strate college designers also asked him to organize with Francis Winisdoerffer (EADS space architect) a partnership about "outer space design." After 3 years of university were he has been studying biology and geology, he undertook architecture studies and graduated in 1995. His diploma subject was a "permanent base on Mars". He joined the French Chapter of the Mars Society in 2001, and since conducted a lot of cooperative work with Pierre Brulhet. During the last 10 years, he managed a lot of Martian projects at the school of architecture, and also diplomas of architecture.ˆpIn 2004 the subject of his lectures were about the "return to the moon", and in 2005 a development of "mars direct" involving Phobos as a human base. He is presently working on concepts for Mars habitats, mainly on inflatable and underground structures.