Located at this location since 1965, the Explorers Club is a group of professionals dedicated to the advancement of field research.
Members of the group were the first explorers to the North Pole (Robert E. Peary & Matthew Henson in 1909), first to the South Pole (Roald Amundsen in 1911), first to the summit of Mt. Everest (Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay in 1953), and first to the surface of the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins in 1969).
Today, the off-world colony group known as Mars One hold regular meetings to plan for a proposed manned mission to Mars in 2025.
Source: New Yorker, April 25, 2014
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