Some 1,900 Laboratory employees and subcontract personnel live in Santa Fe while another 500 employees live in Sandoval and Bernalillo counties. Many of these employees travel U.S. 84-285 daily to get to work. The Lab allows managers to use flex-time scheduling, but employees should plan on delays and adjust their schedules accordingly. In celebration of this event, the Mars Society and the New Mexico Space Society are sponsoring a Los Alamos MarsFest from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos campus, Building 6, rooms 622 and 624. During the afternoon, there will be a continuous broadcast of NASA-TV with news from the Polar Lander, slide shows and a video, a talk by Leonard Duda of NASA, activities for children and information tables for the Mars Society and the New Mexico Space Society.
Participants also can sign up to have their name included on the next Mars lander.