Our Mission

Engineering a permanent, self-sustaining colony of 100 people on Mars, with the capability for further expansion.

Recent Blog Posts

  • This references section contains ship specs and names that are otherwise scattered throughout the posts.  They're set up as standalone pages since they aren't really related to each other.  (Plus, it's an excuse to try out different features of the…
  • In the February 11, 2020 edition of “The Space Show,” Robert Zubrin shared what he learned in a visit to the “shipyard” at Boca Chica. He spent time talking with Musk and with SpaceX engineers, and there were a variety of key takeaways. Most important,…
  • The Pioneer Astronautics paper, “Drilling Operations to Support Human Mars Missions,” that we read on Day 22 describes an array of orbital and surface instruments looking for water. Since 1998, when the paper was written, a multitude of missions have…

I assume it's obvious, but this site is more "Under Construction" than NASA's Space Launch System.  We'll see which one gets done first.