#marssociety — Public Fediverse posts
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📆 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/
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#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 : :ccby: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MDRS_Astronauts.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Desert_Research_Station_2020.jpg :cc_zero: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Test_of_LOCAD-PTS_swab_system_during_EVA_at_NASA_Desert_RATS_2005.JPG
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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».