{"id":20250,"date":"2019-11-14T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20250"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:23:00","slug":"space-settlement-roundup-nov-14-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=20250","title":{"rendered":"Space settlement roundup \u2013 Nov.14.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images related to human expansion into the solar system (see also previous space settlement postings<\/a>):<\/p>\n

** A settlement on Mars has always been the primary goal for SpaceX<\/strong>. The accelerating development of the Starship space transport system means that such a settlement is becoming more feasible and nearer in time. In fact, if the Starship space transport system achieves Elon Musk’s expectation of a $10-20\/kg<\/a> operating cost to reach low earth orbit, then all sorts of\u00a0 space concepts previously considered distant future sci-fi become feasible.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX vision of a Mars settlement built by people transported there by Starships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elon recently posted at on Twitter<\/a> a series of comments about Starship capabilities and how it would enable Mars settlement:<\/p>\n