Why Downtown artist Reid Stowe is training the first Mars explorers

One small sketch for man… A veteran of the 1980s Soho art scene is helping to prepare people to go to Mars.

Reid Stowe, who was pals with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel, Anthony Haden-Guest and other staples of the Downtown art explosion, also became an elite endurance sailor.

And it turns out the...