IKEA Announces New Research On Mars-Inspired Furniture
IKEA presents its MDRS crew while announcing work on new, Mars-inspired furniture. Image credit WIRED IKEA is the latest company...
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Interview with Mars Society President Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and president of the Mars Society. His work on manned Mars missions include...
Budweiser Announces Long-Term Ambition to Be the First Beer on Mars
Among serious supporters of human expansion into outer space, there seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that somebody, somewhere, will...
International Potato Center Confirms Potatoes Can Be Grown On Mars
According to the International Potato Center, potato crops can produce 2-4 times the food value per hectare compared to most...
Imperial College in London To Investigate Bacteria’s Ability To Survive On Moon And Mars
Bacteria are important to the life cycle of plants because they are responsible for breaking down dead plant parts to...
Mars Society to Hold International Student Mars Art Contest
Students in grades 4-12 are invited to participate in the Student Mars Art (SMArt) Contest, which is being sponsored by...
Explore Mars Inc. Officials: “Humans Will Walk on Mars in Less Than 18 Years”
News Release from Explore Mars Inc.: Humans to Mars Summit (H2M) 2017 to Convene Largest Gathering of Business, Policy and...
National Geographic’s Mars: Realistic, or Not?
If you're like me, you probably got done watching the National Geographic's Mars series. Not bad for a dramatized thing....
Mars One Set To Debate MIT At Mars Society Convention
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Is Mars One even feasible? You may remember that MIT study that basically said it's not....
South Dakota Has Competition And Guess What It Is!
What does South Dakota have going for it? Well, at least it's not Mars. That's the message in its latest...
Mars One Candidates — Part 3
Now that the Round 3 candidates for Mars One has been announced, I've touched base with a few of the...
Mars One Is Down To 100 Candidates
Today, Mars One officially announced its list of Round 3 candidates who will be moving on to more intense challenges....
Meet The Candidates — Part Two
So I've already posted a few interviews I did with Mars One candidates under the guise of "Meet The Candidates...
Meet The Candidates — Part One (-ish).
I suppose it's no secret by now that we're all going to have our Mars One candidate interviews soon, not...
The Value of the Mars One Media Events
Image credit Bryan Versteeg It's no news by now that Mars One is going to fund its operations primarily with...
The Upcoming Mars Society Convention (2014)
If you're a space travel enthusiast who regularly visits the relevant sites, you might have heard by now that the...
Mars One and Me
Me with astronaut Doug Wheelock I watch my sister fiddle with an expensive camera between complaints about the complexity of...
Mars One Finalizes Media Deal
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Mars One just announced this morning that they've finalized a deal with a production company called...
Who Are We?
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Here's a challenge. Before you read any farther, write down twenty unique answers to the question,...
Let’s Stir Up Some Competition
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Does Mars One have a contract with one or more aerospace companies that can get the...
We Are The Aspiring Martians
Image credit Bryan Versteeg After a certain amount of drama involving medical insurance, managing appointments with various specialists, and one...
Good Luck, Shannon.
Shannon's Letter to Mars One. Image credit Mars One -- Human Settlement of Mars Group The above letter is pretty...
Buying The Naming Rights for the Mars One Hardware
Will this rover become the Disney Mobility Unit? Image credit Mars One If you've visited the Mars One website and...
Timekeeping on Mars
The face of the watch created by Garo Anserlian. Image credit NASA.Mars has a slightly longer day than Earth does...
Aquaponics on Mars?
What a pretty typical multilayered aquaponics system might look like. Image credit Growing Power So I've already considered hydroponics on...
Mars One and You
So you might be wondering what the space program has done for you lately. The space shuttle era has ended...
What Impact Will We Have On The Martian Environment?
One of those things where you can't have it both ways. Either you're going to keep Mars a red, dusty...
What Sort Of Government Will Mars One Have?
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg So we have a growing community on Mars and two colonists just can't seem to get...
Just Finished Up An Interview
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg I think I'm starting to do better about getting the word out about Mars One. I...
Getting The Word Out About Mars One
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg So I made it to Round 2 of the Mars One selections, what do I do...
Mars One As Part Of The REAL Counterculture
So you hear people yakking about something called the “counterculture.” Every long haired hippie who has ever driven a van...
Stay Involved with Mars One
Image credit Bryan Versteeg Right now there are a lot of disappointed people on this planet. The Mars One applicants...
Indoor Gardening On Mars
Concept art for the Mars One greenhouse. Image credit Bryan Versteeg. Mars One plans to provide 50 square meters of...
Facing Fear for Mars One
The turtle could spend his whole life hiding in his shell, or make progress by sticking his neck out. Are...
Round 2 Begins Now
A proposed interior design for the Mars One habitat. Image credit Bryan Versteeg Yesterday morning, I danced a little happy...
What Holidays Will We Celebrate On Mars?
Image credit: MTV Geek We will be celebrating all the obvious holidays on Mars, right? I mean, who could possibly...
Mars One Updates Their Roadmap To Mars
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Mars One is well on track to establish the first otherworldly colony with its plan to...
Lockheed Martin and SSTL Contracted for Concept Study
On December 10th, Mars One held a press conference in Washington, D.C., to announce that they have contracted with Lockheed...
The Radiation Threat is a Paper Tiger
Would just standing outside in the Martian sun be a problem for future explorers and settlers? Image credit: Gizmodo So...
Are We Mentally Ready For This?
So some of us are already a little nuts, as seen in this Mars One application video. Are we going...
Can You Have Children On Mars?
Is this what the first hot toy on Mars is going to look like? Image credit: The Seattle Times So...
Less Than One Week To Go?
Will the Mars One candidates who advance to the next round be announced on December 10 like this article states?...
Mars One and Diversity
Image credit Bryan Versteeg So, how diverse is the Mars One crew going to be? Because of the worldwide nature...
Why Mars One Is Already A Success
Image credit Bryan Versteeg I've heard the talk that Mars One won't ever get off the ground. There's no way...
What Kind Of Food Can We Grow On Mars?
The proposed greenhouse. Image credit Bryan Versteeg Will we produce the amount of food our Martian colony needs to survive?...
Mars One and the Value of a Life
Like most Mars One candidates who aren't living in a bubble, I've heard the talk from people who think that...
Can You Ever Return To Earth?
Image credit Bryan Versteeg Once you go to Mars, can you ever fully integrate back into an Earth-based society? Can...
Mars One Myth #3: You’ll All Die!
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Okay, so there are people out there who claim that the Mars One colonists are basically...
Mars One Myth #2: What They’re Doing Is Unethical
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg Not that long ago in a forum not so far away, I saw a post claiming...
Mars One Myth #1: It’s A Scam
Image credit: Bryan Versteeg If you are a Mars One candidate who has spent any time at all browsing the...
