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My article "Trump Assaults American Space Science" was published today in Space News.
#Space #Science #Mars #MarsSociety #SpaceX #NASA
https://spacenews.com/trump-assaults-american-space-science/
Exploring Mars Colonization: Plans and Technologies Ahead 
#MarsColonization #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceX #MarsSociety #RedPlanet #SpaceTechnology https://globalcommons.onrender.com/science/exploring-mars-colonization-plans-and-technologies-ahead/
Mars Society gains a foothold in AI and biotech
The Mars Society says it’s making progress on launching a startup incubator in the Seattle area, with artificial intelligence and biotech as its first targets. Its long-term goal? To make a profit, yes, but also to support the development of technologies needed to sustain settlements
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/12/mars-society-gains-a-foothold-in-ai-and-biotech/
#GeekWire #ArtificialIntelligence #Biotech #Mars #MarsSociety #Robots #Space
The #MarsSociety is sharing details about its plans to create an AI-powered virtual consultant for space engineering and a prize competition for synthetic food production - all part of an evolving strategy to use startups on Earth to support missions to #Mars. https://www.geekwire.com/2024/mars-society-ai-robotics-biotech-space/ #Space
One way to get samples on Mars: Send in the Cybertrucks
Tesla’s Cybertruck may look ungainly on Earth, but a pressurized version of the vehicle might be just the thing for gathering up samples of Martian rock and soil for return to Earth. That’s one of the way-out concepts that was discussed in Seattle during the past week’s con
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/11/one-way-to-get-samples-on-mars-send-in-the-cybertrucks/
#GeekWire #Mars #MarsSociety #NASA #Space #SpaceX #Starship #TeslaMotors
Could a #SpaceX #Starship send a #Tesla #Cybertruck (or a robotic fleet of them) to gather up samples on #Mars? Space advocates float the idea at the annual #MarsSociety annual convention while #NASA and its partners rethink strategies for a sample return mission. https://www.geekwire.com/2024/cybertruck-mars-space-nasa-sample-return/ #Space
Mars Society plots a high-tech course to the Red Planet
What’s the best route to the Red Planet? Hundreds of people are converging on Seattle this week to consider that question at the annual convention of the Mars Society. And the answer may come, at least in part, from an array of tech startups.
“The route to get to Mars is commercial,” James Burk, the nonpro
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/08/07/mars-society-plots-a-high-tech-course-to-the-red-planet/
#GeekWire #Mars #MarsSociety #Space
November 27, 2023 The #MarsSociety has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the Mars Technology Institute (#MTI). “#SpaceX and other entrepreneurial #LaunchCompanies are already moving rapidly to develop the transportation systems that can get us to the #planet #Mars. What is needed is an institution devoted to developing the technologies that will allow us to #live once we are there." https://www.marssociety.org/news/2023/11/27/mars-technology-institute-crowdfunding-campaign-launched/
Mars Society unveils plan for Mars Technology Institute
The nonprofit Mars Society is getting set to take the next giant leap in its mission to support Red Planet exploration and settlement, by establishing a Mars Technology Institute to develop the tools and processes those settlers will need.
Robert Zubrin, the Mars Society’s founder and pres
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/09/06/mars-society-unveils-plan-for-mars-technology-institute/
#GeekWire #Mars #MarsSociety #Space #SpaceSettlement
#MarsSociety unveils its plan to create the #Mars Technology Institute to lay the groundwork for Red Planet settlement - and the institute's HQ just might be established in the Pacific Northwest: https://www.geekwire.com/2023/mars-society-tech-institute/ #Seattle #Space
#MarsSociety April 2023 During #Hypatia #Mars 
Mission, an all-female crew of nine from #Catalonia 
spent two weeks in isolation at the Mars Desert Research Station (#MDRS) https://mdrs.marssociety.org/2023/04/29/mission-summary-april-28th Crew : https://hypatiamars.com/crew
#CNN May 16, 2023 To prepare #astronauts 
for an extended stay on Mars, #NASA’s latest simulated mission, #CHAPEA – Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog – will isolate four people inside a mock-Mars base in Texas for 
378 days. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/16/world/chapea-nasa-mars-analog-spc-scn-intl/index.html
Pictures : 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MDRS_Astronauts.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Desert_Research_Station_2020.jpg 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Test_of_LOCAD-PTS_swab_system_during_EVA_at_NASA_Desert_RATS_2005.JPG
On #SeldonCrisis, I asked #KimStanleyRobinson to respond to a comment made by #MarsSociety president #RobertZubrin about "limits to growth" and his answer was substantive and clear. He's not an advocate of degrowth, but of smart, green, clean growth, and that can lead us to a beautiful future.
https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/future-visions-with-kim-stanley-robinson
Why Not Mars. By Maciej Ceglowsky | Idle Words https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm
«The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing on Mars with existing technology would be a destructive, wasteful stunt whose only legacy would be to ruin the greatest natural history experiment in the Solar System».
My story episodes on #SeldonCrisis are the relative heavy hitters getting ~200 downloads in first 30 days. The latest guest episode with Robert #Zubrin is on track to double that at the current pace. #Mars #MarsDirect #NASA #Panspermia #LifeOnEarth #Spaceflight #MarsSociety
https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/the-human-future-in-space-with-robert-zubrin
Rather frustrated with these sexist attacks from Edward Heisler of #MarsSociety:
