Technologies for long term Mars habitation
- Paper number
IAC-18,A5,IP,3,x48421
- Author
Ms. Megan Kane, United States, Spire Global, Inc.
- Year
2018
- Abstract
With companies like SpaceEx focused on getting people to Mars, there is a larger question of what will we do once we arrive? How will we live? How can we create a sustainable environment for an unknown and ever growing population. While NASA and other agencies discuss sending and returning small numbers of people, Mars One, Elon Musk and others discuss colonizing the planet. A colony's needs are very different from those of a temporary base, and that is something that needs to be seriously considered. There exist today in existing or nascent form, technologies that will be vital to both building and maintaining a colony on a celestial body. Herein we discuss the major elements, opening up avenues of research and discussion for our future.
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