IKEA is the latest company to jump on the Mars bandwagon by announcing that it is sending a team of furniture designers to the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), a simulated Martian habitat located in Utah. IKEA plans to use what it learned from the experience to design a new line of furniture … [Read more…]
Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and president of the Mars Society. His work on manned Mars missions include work on In-Situ Resource Utilization technology and the Mars Direct plan, which would bring the costs of manned Mars missions down compared to more complex plans like the Journey to Mars. For context, this interview … [Read more…]
Among serious supporters of human expansion into outer space, there seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that somebody, somewhere, will be the first to set up a brewery on a permanent base, station or colony. It might be frowned on, discouraged, or outright forbidden, but people can be darned clever about improvising a still or … [Read more…]
According to the International Potato Center, potato crops can produce 2-4 times the food value per hectare compared to most grain crops. A new potato plant can grow from a potato or a piece of potato that contains the eye or from potato berries that can contain 100 to 400 seeds. Because they can grow … [Read more…]
Bacteria are important to the life cycle of plants because they are responsible for breaking down dead plant parts to be “recycled” by living plants for nutrients. Plants require nitrogen, phosphorous potassium or calcium to grow. However, as these nutrients are taken up into the plants, the nutrient stock is depleted in the soil they … [Read more…]
Students in grades 4-12 are invited to participate in the Student Mars Art (SMArt) Contest, which is being sponsored by the Mars Society. Students may enter up to three pieces of artwork that depicts any part of the human future on the Red Planet, including the first landing, human field exploration, operations at an early … [Read more…]
News Release from Explore Mars Inc.: Humans to Mars Summit (H2M) 2017 to Convene Largest Gathering of Business, Policy and Academic Leaders for 5th Annual Summit to Advance Agenda, Technology Solutions to Put Humans on Mars Buzz Aldrin at Humans to Mars Summit 2016 WASHINGTON, DC – February 21, 2017 – The 5th Annual Humans … [Read more…]
If you’re like me, you probably got done watching the National Geographic’s Mars series. Not bad for a dramatized thing. Lesson number one: Mars isn’t for sissies. Lesson number two: People are going to get killed and that’s no reason to give up. Lesson number three: Mars doesn’t friggin’ care if you’ve won a Nobel … [Read more…]
Is Mars One even feasible? You may remember that MIT study that basically said it’s not. While MIT students are brilliant, obviously there are people who disagree and the unfortunate part is that they had only limited information to work with. In the hope of addressing this question, a team from Mars One headed by … [Read more…]
What does South Dakota have going for it? Well, at least it’s not Mars. That’s the message in its latest ad aimed at young people who mostly see it as a tourist destination and don’t consider the fact that people actually live there. It makes an indirect reference to Mars One in its script: “Mars. … [Read more…]