A TEDx talk about a Mars research station + Purdue students plan a Moon colony

In a TEDx talk, Shaun Moss lays out his vision of settling Mars in an affordable way. See the site International Mars Research Station for details.

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 Shaun Moss is a computer scientist with a 15-year passion for Mars. While reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson in 1999 Shaun realised that people would go to Mars in his lifetime, and he decided he wanted to be part of that. Since then he has been an active member of a variety of space enthusiast groups, mainly the Mars Society and Mars Society Australia (for which he acts as secretary and director) but also the Moon Society, the Mars Foundation and many others. Shaun’s research has included how to make air and steel on Mars, Martian timekeeping systems, terraforming and more, and he has given numerous presentations at conferences in Australia and the United States. For the past year he has been developing a robust and affordable humans-to- Mars mission architecture with the intention of establishing the International Mars Research Station. He publishes regular writing on Mars at his blog and is working on a book; he has already published a book on one of his other passions, Practical Metaphysics.

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A class of Purdue students have assembled an elaborate plan to put a colony on the Moon: Purdue students pitch Mars colony to NASA – JCOnline. Here is their 1,100-page report.

Unfortunately, they more or less follow a 1960s Apollo model for lunar missions, which results in a hugely expensive multi-hundred billion dollar program. And that’s despite using NASA’s fictitious $500M cost for each SLS flight.