April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... To determine whether humans can successfully explore and inhabit Mars, several questions must be answered NASA has developed, ...the possibility of getting to Mars Can we live on Mars? Assuming we can get to Mars, the more difficult questions...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
...’s drive for Mars colonisation but there are many other lesser known projects like the UAE’s Mars 2117 project, ...the possibilities for space tourism, deep space human missions, lunar, Mars and other off-world settlements become less of a dream and ...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
...unsustainable, especially if climate change is an immediate existential threat. This brings us to another essential point in favour of Mars colonisation and against the myth that it would detract from environmental responsibility on the mother planet...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...spaceflight since the Apollo days, my conclusion is that, providing humans can adapt successfully to its low gravity, Mars colonisation will become possible. But getting the transport and life-support technologies up to the required standards of high...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
... convert it to useful organic products has been developed by scientists to help would-be Mars colonisers settle on the planet. It is thought that our nearest planetary neighbour, Mars, once had a thick atmosphere that retained enough heat for liquid...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... three geodesic cupolas, and focus on the relationship between inside and outside space. In the early days of Mars colonisation, we will have an entire new planet to live on, but very little space to live in. Between simulation and reality...
