AdvertisementAn Aspiring Martian Continues To Pursue The Red PlanetDecember 27, 2014NPR StafffacebookEmailLt. Heidi Beemer, shown at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in 2011, recently returned to the station for a simulation test for the Mars Arctic 365 program. Since childhood, she's dreamed of traveling to Mars. (Max Fagin)