This work presents a brief summary of a 16-Day, simulated mission to the Red Planet Mars, conducted in the Spring of 1969 only a few months before the Apollo 11 successful mission to first land humans on the Moon. Here a group of High School students from Anniston, Alabama used the Apollo 8 mission, which first orbited men around the Moon, as a template for a similar mission to Mars. Conducted on school property with full cooperation of school faculty...