{"id":7418,"date":"2014-04-18T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2014-04-18T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:25:36","slug":"a-tedx-talk-about-a-mars-research-station-purdue-students-plan-a-moon-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7418","title":{"rendered":"A TEDx talk about a Mars research station + Purdue students plan a Moon colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a TEDx talk, Shaun Moss lays out his vision of settling Mars in an affordable way. See the site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marsbase.org\/\" target=\"_d\">International Mars Research Station<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oA2EAOp7QLc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<em>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&#8217;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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>A class of Purdue students have assembled an elaborate plan to put a colony on\u00a0the Moon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/news\/college\/2014\/04\/17\/purdue-students-propose-mars-colony\/7845383\/\" target=\"_d\">Purdue students pitch Mars colony to NASA &#8211; JCOnline<\/a>. Here is their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/AAE\/Academics\/Courses\/aae450\/2014\/spring\/docs\/ProjectArtemisReport.pdf\">1,100-page report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they more or less\u00a0follow a 1960s Apollo model for lunar missions, which results in a hugely expensive multi-hundred billion dollar program. And that&#8217;s despite using NASA&#8217;s\u00a0fictitious $500M cost for each SLS flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a TEDx talk, Shaun Moss lays out his vision of settling Mars in an affordable way. See the site\u00a0International Mars Research Station\u00a0for details. From the caption: \u00a0Shaun 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A TEDx talk about a Mars research station + Purdue students plan a Moon colony<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-settlement","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1VE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6011,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6011","url_meta":{"origin":7418,"position":0},"title":"Video: A report from the Mars Desert Research Station","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In this video \u00a0journalist Elizabeth Howell reports on the activities of Crew 133, which is currently carrying out a Mars mission simulation at the \u00a0Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS)\u00a0in Utah:\u00a0Video Update from MDRS - The Mars Society http:\/\/youtu.be\/jJmPolnvlvc","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Living in Space&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Living in Space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=17"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/jJmPolnvlvc\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15935,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15935","url_meta":{"origin":7418,"position":1},"title":"Video: Mars Society&#8217;s MarsVR virtual reality platform to assist human exploration of Martian landing sites","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mars Society is holding the\u00a0MarsVR\u00a0 Kickstarter\u00a0campaign to fund development of \"a virtual reality platform for serious research to support the human exploration of Mars\" - \ufeff The MarsVR program will be a unique multi-phase effort designed to pioneer the emerging field of\u00a0CrowdExploration, which we define as the partnership between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1925,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1925","url_meta":{"origin":7418,"position":2},"title":"The Space Show: Chuck Killian and the Mars Desert Research Station","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Chuck Killian of the Mars Society came to the Space Show on Friday and talked about the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah where they have been simulating Mars missions for ten years: Charles (Chuck) Killian, Friday, 4-26-13 | Thespaceshow's Blog.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DIY space&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DIY space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16606,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16606","url_meta":{"origin":7418,"position":3},"title":"The 21st Annual Mars Society Conference in Pasadena this weekend","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a021st\u00a0Annual International Mars Society Convention\u00a0starts tomorrow in Pasadena, California and will last through Sunday.\u00a0 Check out the schedule (pdf) packed with keynote talks and multiple parallel session tracks.\u00a0There are over 40 different sessions listed in the Conference flyer (pdf). 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