Due to the current pandemic, the Mars Society conference was held virtually this year. It was also free. Consequently, a conference that peaked at 2000 people and had dropped to under 800 in recent years

I recently updated my WordPress version, but apparently my original (third party) theme does not work with the latest version of WordPress, or some other such issue. I'm not sure. For now, that means the

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I've entered a design in the Mars Colony Prize from The Mars Society.  This competition focuses not only on the technical aspects of setting up a settlement for 1000 people, but the economic model as well.

Recently, Elon Musk mentioned that the new spacecraft in development, known originally as Mars Colonial Transport, then Interplanetary Transport System, then BFS, is now being called simply

Here is the short version. There is a lot of concern about Russia and China working on hypersonic weaponry, primarily for anti-ship activities. China probably has enough money and technology to make this

I will be speaking at the August 23-26 Mars Society Conference at the Pasadena Convention Center. This year will be another wonderful, informative convention with a new emphasis on VR projects we are currently

Occasionally, I bump into people who are both interesting and who are interested some of the stuff I've described in conversation. So some of these posts are basically for an audience of one in inspiration,

The future fleet of over a thousand satellites seems to be on track. The two prototype satellites in orbit are functioning very well. The satellites, named TinTin A and B, are able to communicate at high

I'm not sure which part of this I'm most excited about. Getting to go back to Mars Desert Research Station in my home office anytime I like, or finally being able to show my family where I went on some

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Hi everyone! I'll be posting mostly on space settlement and exploration. I have done dozens of presentations on concepts for settling Mars and other worlds, and am chair of the Mars Society Steering Committee.