In 2009, he served as executive officer and chief engineer for a one-month simulated Mars mission at the Mars Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island in the Canadian arctic. While there, he became the first person in history to launch and operate an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) while wearing a simulated spacesuit. He also deployed a prototype lunar rover provided by the Omega Envoy Project, a participant in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, with whom he serves as an advisor.
Joseph holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Nuclear Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has played an integral role in two commercial design studies of the first permanent Mars settlement. He is co-author of technical papers on the topics of Mars nuclear power plant design, Mars settlement architecture, space economics and the economics of energy on Mars. He is an Eagle Scout, received the 2005 Peter Diamandis Leadership Award while he was in Fukuoka, Japan, and received the 2007 Young Professionals Entrepreneurship Prize from the Luigi Gerardo Napolitano Society while he was in Hyderabad, India. He speaks frequently at conferences and events worldwide on the topics of Mars settlement and space development.
