Spaceward Bound

A Field Expedition for Pre-Service Teachers and Undergraduate Science Majors interested in teaching K-12, in partnership with the The California State University Chancellor's Office and San Francisco State University and the California State University Desert Research Station at Zzyzx, California.

In Spring of 2008 and 2009 (SF State Spring Break), pre-service teachers and undergraduate science or math majors from San Francisco State University studied side-by-side with world-renowned planetary scientists who search for life in extreme environments.

Why the Mojave - an inhospitable, parched, sun-drenched, spot in southern California? This natural setting present scientists with opportunities to study environments that are analogous to what explorers will find on the Moon and Mars. Teachers, students and scientists peform scientific fieldwork in lunar geology, Mars astrobiology, Mars geology, and issues of temperature and solar inundation and radation. See pictures from past Spaceward Bound expeditions on our Flickr Page.