NEW YORK, NY – Mars Ocean Analogs (MOA) proudly announces the triumphant return of Captain Reed Stowe to New York City on June 15, 2025, concluding a remarkable series of ocean voyages designed to prepare future astronauts for the rigors of deep space exploration. Over the past six months, Captain Stowe and his diverse crews sailed the Atlantic twice, once through the Caribbean, and twice across the Gulf of Mexico, culminating in a historic journey to Starbase, Texas and back. This ambitious expedition underscores MOA’s mission to provide challenging training for the space community through real-world analog experiences.

The ambitious series of five back to back Mars Ocean Analogs began in New York, NY on December 22, 2024 in 16 degree weather and ended June 15 in a lighting and thunder filled rain storm. This is the only deep space training program where the analog astronauts have to prove their physical abilities and overcome real danger and fear that nest prepares them for what they aspire to face on a real Mars mission. Going to sea on a relatively small sailboat is challenging and the program was not designed to be easy.

Captain Stowe, a world-record holder for his 1,152-day non-stop voyage at sea (846  days without seeing another human), designed these expeditions to impart his hard-earned expertise. Through hands-on experience, he taught participants the mental and physical endurance techniques that su

stained him during his historic journey. “The ocean is a classroom for deep space,” said Stowe. “By sharing how I thrived in isolation for over three years, I’m preparing these crews for the psychological and practical demands of a three year Mars mission.” By completing this journey, MOA sets a new benchmark for analog training, proving the ocean’s power to prepare humanity for the stars.

The Schooner Starship that still holds the record for The Longest Sea Voyage in History and carries out the boldest Mars training missions is battered from many sea miles, but possesses timeless magic, wonder, and astounds all who come aboard.

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periodically streaming at www.youtube.com/goonewsbroadcast some of the voyage. As of Friday 11/22/24, due to the extremely bad weather and their boats transmission leaking, Reid and Crew returned to the shore and are now anchored at the Statue of Liberty.

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Kick Off Event for Earth Day

4/22/25,

Nov. 17-29

Mars Odyssey Analogs at SEA

Good News/Earth Day has made this voyage, our KICK-OFF EARTH AND WATER DAY EVENT. Why, because living on water, learning about water, paying attention to water, and conserving water all represent life on MOTHER EARTH, in essence NO WATER NO LIFE, TOO MUCH WATER NO LIFE…so let’s all understand water’s importance as the substance for life.

As mentioned we are preparing for our Earth and Water Day in Times Square Concert on April 22, 2025. We are trying to make Times Square GREEN FOREVER and partnering with the Borough President of Manhattan, Mark Levine and OMMM, EarthDay.org, AY Young, and many more. To see our 2025 Presentation

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2025 Earth & Water & Peace Day

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Our www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast and www.pausetheworldforpeace.org website produced this STAYING HEALTHY DURING HOLIDAY EVENTS WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Good News has produced 100’s more interviews for health and wellness.

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HOLIDAY GATHERINGS CAN BE WONDERFUL, Especially One With Rising Infection Rates, BUT IT’S ALSO A TIME TO STAY VIGILANT AND PROTECTED AGAINST RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES…

Also here is a story on our NYC Community working to cover a LARGE PORTION, 30% Canopy OF NYC with TREES. We need your help to cover some of Times Square with Trees forever…

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On Thursday, November 21st at 11am, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice in collaboration with NYC Parks

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The Mars Ocean Analogs® crew is set to embark on a groundbreaking sailing mission this November, departing from New York City on the historic Schooner Anne Starship. Led by veteran sea captain and world record holder Reid Stowe, the team will undertake NYC’s first-ever high seas analog training for aspiring astronauts. This mission, scheduled from November 16 to November 26, will simulate the extreme conditions of danger, high performance, isolation and self-sufficiency that astronauts will face during future missions to Mars.

The link for LIVE STREAM IS at https://youtube.com/live/27zXeipTYsQ?feature=share and www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast, and www.marsoceananalogs.org for details.

The Schooner Anne is the same vessel that Stowe commanded on the longest sea voyage in history, spending 1,152 days continuously at sea without resupply from 2007 to 2010—an unprecedented analog for a journey to Mars. During that voyage, Stowe and his crew navigated far beyond the sight of land, in conditions similar to what astronauts will experience during a three-year mission to Mars.

Why Is This Mission So Critical Now?

As space agencies worldwide accelerate their plans to send humans to Mars, a crucial gap remains in astronaut training. The human mission to Mars and back is expected to take approximately three years, during which astronauts will be isolated in a cramped, high-stakes environment—one that only Reid Stowe has simulated continuously over three years through his record-breaking voyage.

“Mars aspiring trainees must gain experience in the isolated, life-and-death expanse of the high seas to truly prepare for the challenges of a Mars mission,” explains Stowe, Commander of the Schooner Anne. “While billions of dollars are being invested in space technology, extreme astronaut training at sea is being overlooked. The human element is the weak link, and our mission is to strengthen that by offering real-world, high-seas analogs that push both physical and psychological limits.”

A Proven Training Ground

This upcoming mission will be the Mars Ocean Analog team’s fifth high-seas expedition, following four successful voyages that have attracted global media attention and support, including a mission to the SpaceX launch pad near the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Mars Ocean Analogs® crew is inviting select members of the media to meet the captain and crew aboard the Schooner Anne, which has played a pivotal role in advancing human spaceflight training through these Mars analog missions.

Contact Mission Control to schedule an interview:

Reid Stowe

Phone: (336) 707-1705

Email: info@marsoceananalogs.org

Website: www.marsoceananalogs.org

Instagram: @marsoceananalogs 

This voyage promises to play a critical role in preparing the next generation of astronauts for humanity’s boldest mission yet: Mars.

• Earth & Water Day 2025 in Times Square and broadcast around the world on April 22, 2025, will be Good News Corporation’s 23 Annual Pause the World for Peace Event and MOTHER EARTH. The Historic Event is a partnership with Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Nonprofit, 501 C 3, est. 2002. Good News Corporation GNC is producing the Worldwide Clean Energy 5-HOUR Concert with OMMM, www.earthday.org, AY Young and in discussion with other caring MOTHER EARTH citizens and organizations.

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Mars Ocean Analogs® notable press features:

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Also here are a few of our latest Health and Wellness Interviews that could help save someone’s life: Tension, Restless Leg Syndrome, Live Cancer, and Manage Diabetes. GOOD NEWS has been a leader worldwide since 1998 to share important medical information with our audience.

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With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth,  For Information Contact: 

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11:58-12 Noon Reverend Paul Sladkus, on Sax, perform America the Beautiful to get the crowds attention, representing our beautiful country and the rest of the world, and crown thy good with brotherhood/sisterhood from sea to shining sea…Anywhere in the World. Pete Seeger told me go West from California to the New York Island, covers the world, This Land Was Made for You and Me! No More 9/11’s

12 Noon 12:01pm A Moment of Silence for World Peace, Mayor Adams, Pastor Monroe Faith Advisor/Faith- Based and Community Partnerships Office of the Mayor of New York City TBD

12:01 – 12:05 pm Mayor Adams, Pastor Monroe Faith Advisor/Faith- Based and Community Partnerships Office of the Mayor of New York City TBD or Reverend Paul Sladkus will introduce our program.

12:06 pm – 12:10 pm Reverend Paul Sladkus will thank the Mayor and Pastor Monrose and introduce all the participants in our Special 9/11 Press Conference for World Peace program, 11 Days of Global Unity, www.we.net and the International Day of Peace on 9/21 in Times Square, Moment of Silence, Pause the World for Peace, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org, www.unify.org

12:11 pm – 12:16 pm – Russell Daisey & Dr. Judy Kuriansky – Towers of Light Singing to Track

12:17 pm – 12:22 pm – Michele Delafab & Nohoku Dancing to Amazing Grace Singing to Track

12: 23 pm – 12:26 pm – Airman First Class Errol Rappaport – Operation Warrior Shield

12:27 pm – 12:30 pm Jonathan Granoff – Global Security Institute – Nuclear

12:31 pm – 12:34 pm Michele Bongiovanni – Heal our World and Music 4 Climate Justice,

12:35 pm – 12:38 pm Lowell Lewis – Luvien: The Guardian Collective

12:39 pm – 12:41 pm Brian Lo

12:42 pm – 12:45 pm Jorge Guinovart Alpha Coin/Alpha World

12:46 pm – 12: 47 pm Reid Stowe, World’s Longest Voyage at Sea, 1,152 Days

12:48 pm – 12:50 pm Choudri Barat, Barat Foundation, Animodules

12:51 pm – 12:53 pm Robert Forenza, Hugg A Planet

12:54 pm – 12:59 pm Cheyenne Elliott What the World Needs Now, Singing to Track, Cheyenne is Dionne Warwick’s Granddaughter.

12:59:30 pm – 1:00 pm Reverend Paul Sladkus Closing

Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute, Representative to United Nations of the World Summits of Nobel, Senior Advisor Committee on National Security American Bar Association International Law Section. Fellow and Trustee of World Academy of Art and Science. Expert testimony before the US Congress and Parliaments of the UK and Canada and United Nations. More than 100 publications. He has received numerous awards, including, Rutgers University Law School Distinguished Alumni Award; American Bar Association Section of International Law Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020; International Film & TV Festival of New York1990 Silver Medal for Our Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee for 2014. Vassar College, BA Cum Laude, 1970; Rutgers University School of Law, JD, 1976.

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1000 Days at Sea Voyage Update from Reid Stowe!

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1000 Days at Sea Press Conference – Part 3

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1000 Days at Sea Voyage Press Conference – Part2

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1000 Days at Sea – Press Conference Part 1

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Reception October 3, 6pm – 8pm
548 West 28th St. Ground Floor and Mezzanine
October 3 – 31
11am – 6pm
Stowe is a serious discovery. He is a natural born mystic whose long voyage seems to have been an extended religious transcendental experience-and what came out of it are paintings that are quite intriguing. They are not classifiable in any certain way. They seem to live in a borderline, exploring between the psychotic and the transcendental, spiritual experience. These works definitely come out of what the psychoanalyst Romain Roland referred to in 1927 as, coincidentally, the “Oceanic Feeling.” They are densely layered and as a body overlap with so many modern concepts in painting.
–Donald Kuspit, Dean of American Art Historians, from article by Peter Falk, Discoveries in American Art

Reid is the ultimate life performance artist.
–Stephen Stux, New York Gallerist

The art world is his current voyage. And besides that, wintry Cape Horn is a ride in an amusement park. –Internationally renown art critic and writer, Anthony Haden Guest , Whatever Floats His Boat

When Jean Paul Basquiat paints your portrait and gives it to you, you remain at sea alone in a 70 ft. schooner you built for 1152 days nonstop without re-supplying, a feat no other human has accomplished. When you create 100 marvelous mixed media paintings on that very voyage while your boat’s integrity is compromised and flipped in high seas, you have earned the right to claim that you have lived an extraordinary life. But even more interesting is how that art reflects that life.
New York City may be a mixed media artist’s dream place. There is junk, ready-mades and just about anything you can think of that can be garnered from its streets to work into a painting. But at sea? You must bring sand and dirt since you will not see land for several years, use sail canvas and sawdust from work done on the boat as well as burned pieces of old paintings and other replacement parts, each having its own worn history, in addition to paint. The undulations of the boat and the course you take all become integral parts of the artwork. But most importantly, the spirits of sea Gods and those unfortunates entombed in Davy Jones locker work to ensure their presence is expressed by influencing the mind and soul. Solitude at sea will inevitably elevate any overworked sailor into a Shaman or Mystic.
Reid’s work can be understood from the point-of-view of artists like Basquiat, whose work was an honest expression of innate, ubiquitous primitiveness. Alone on the ocean, in deep contemplation, sacred truths begin to reveal themselves. His art becomes the chalice that transforms the concept of the Self to action. In the initial visual review of his work, color, form and composition shout abstraction. But upon a second more careful study, a story in puzzle form points the way to divine. Forms are inspired by primitive sea life and rugged, raw land. Untamed images move with innate purpose and order in color only nature could provide. Reid also collaged biographical material such as press clippings and photos into his work, completing the life cycle from the sea to the man. In Reid’s words:
All the treasures and junk incorporated into the art are imbued with the hopes, anguish and love of their own intentions. They were all supposed to have done something to help the missions on the sea succeed. Many did help. Others had high hopes but never made it off the schooner.
Reid also traced images with the course of the schooner, 1000’s of miles in circumference. He created the first GPS art written about in a world wide article in 1999 by the Associated Press and drew the shape of a sea turtle to remind the world of the ancient wisdom of Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and the hare: to go slowly but surely instead of fast and brash as well as a whale the size of the Atlantic itself. So his art also has environmental, conceptual, social and uplifting intent.
When most people think of the process of making art, they think of it as an event—the artist painting in his studio until the piece is completed. But for the rare artist, like Reid, whose art is an integral part of his life, the process does not have a defined beginning and end. Much of what he has created was worked over the course of many years in locations around the world. Each is the end product of years of construction from differing points-of-view and points-in-time. Hockney once said something to the effect that an image is the result of the time it took to make it. That may account for the immediate connection between the viewer and what the painting says back.

His art empowered him to accomplish this historic feat that no other human even attempted. In fact, there are only a few ocean voyagers that have gone over 100 days at sea. What the art gave to Reid in terms of strength, it took from him in terms of empowerment. A painting becomes a holy object that has the power to heal, transform and uplift the viewer. It is rich and deep in many aspects, so it reveals itself to the viewer in different ways over time. Owners of his paintings often say they had the painting for years and never saw this or that; their stories and meanings change with each viewing.
Truth and honesty are the hallmarks of great art. They cannot be taught, they cannot be stolen, and it is in the most arduous of journeys, where survival depends on one’s every action and thought, where no human is allowed a single, serious error that the true spirit emerges in the face of the formidable overpowering sea. Imagine art that can reflect that. That is the art of Reid Stowe.

Reid’s story began well before he and current wife Soanya Ahmad departed from Hoboken, New Jersey on April 21, 2007, sailing together towards the Atlantic on a ship laden with three years worth of food. Their voyage continues to this day. The art is created on dry land with artifacts from boats, ever more meaningful and ever more life sustaining. To date, hundreds of media stories have been written about Reid, many showing Reid with his art as early as 1973. Reid has amassed a huge body of work inspired from his travels around the world. Reid led the first Arts and Cultural Expedition to Antarctica in 1986-87 and was already involved in the art scene in the East Village. As seen from the screenshot below, it sometimes takes greatness to know greatness.

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