#mars

So the question of the day is: Does 21 November 2033 still hit the mark for the first human landing on Mars? Arcadia Planitia. CSD 3819.0300. 15 December 2031, CSD 3717.2265, is the early what-if, not

Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars. Somebody's working on the sequel.

First he settles Mars, then Mars gets a Face. The Cydonia people were just early.

So the question of the day is: Starlink is planning an interplanetary mesh. Moon constellation, then Mars, and maybe more. What do the other comms firms and NASA do now? Build their own link. Ride the

While there is a lot of discussion about what SpaceX Starship is doing on the next test flight, there still is not enough about how radically Starship will change the face of space once it is fully

So the question of the day is: If a Moon or Mars colony declares independence, can someone on Earth become a citizen without ever going? Passport, vote, tax. No longer governed from Earth. All from a couch

A laboratory on Mars beats MSR. Surely? The prize is not a box of rocks in Houston. The prize is answers. Age, chemistry, organics, context, and whether Mars ever held anything alive. Classic sample return

To Chicken on Mars, or not to Chicken? That is the question? Once people live in large rotating habitats around Earth and in settlements on Mars, and once those places grow serious amounts of food, then

1,000,000 vs 1,000 - which is best? Elon Musk has said for years that a self-sustaining Mars city needs about a million people and on the order of a million tonnes of cargo. If the ships from Earth stop,

So the question of the day is: Is the Tesla Semi the Mars vehicle everyone needs? Cybertruck works for fast, long runs. The colony still needs bulk haul and mobile habitats. And they can fit in Starship.

NASA is building toward a nuclear space engine. Their photos are free. So will the engine be free too? No. NASA pictures taken by staff as part of the job usually sit in the public domain. That is copyright.

We talk about Starlink and Starmind as if Earth is the goal - what if it's not. Sure, everything Elon does has a benefit on Earth, but weigh that against one of his key life goals - a self-sustaining colony

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3442.5962. 🌌 "We're kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive." - Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles #SpaceQuotes

So the question of the day is

Where on Earth would you actually stand up a Mars colony sim? Not a two-week habitat stay. A real base you add to every two years, the same cadence a Starship wave would use. I have been looking at

“I am calling it: First human landing on Mars: 21 November 2033.” Parent post: 48 hours later, the call still stands. First human landing on Mars: 21 November 2033, 01:00 UTC. CSD 3819.0300. Countdown

Today in Space History - Breath of a Red World 🚀 Stardate 1916.2080 (SEPTEMBER 17, 1997) Mars Global Surveyor slipped into the thin upper air of the red planet, letting atmospheric drag slowly circularize

Is the Moon just a Mars sistraction?