Mars
Foundation Completes Groundbreaking Mars Settlement Study, Major
Publications of Technical Concepts Announced
Released on
= July 24, 2005, 7:46 pm
Press Release
Author = Mars Foundation
Industry = Aerospace
Press Release
Summary = The Mars Foundation has completed an 8 month technical
study of the first permanent settlement on the planet Mars.
Press Release
Body = Reading, Massachusetts - The Mars Foundation™ has completed
a comprehensive, 8-month, pre-design study of the first human settlement
on the planet Mars, an effort called the Mars Homestead™ Project.
This study verifies that a permanent settlement can be established
early in the course of human Mars
exploration by using near-term technologies and local mars resources.
The unprecedented, unified Mars settlement design and vision places
the Mars Foundation
at the forefront of understanding in this field.
The Mars Foundation’s
global team of 21 scientists and engineers has examined the needs
of the proposed settlement, developed technical concepts for Mars-based
life support and resource utilization, and identified core technologies.
Detailed concepts have been generated for many technical disciplines
including agriculture,
architecture, electrical distribution, bulk gas, HVAC, instrumentation
and controls, information technology, medicine, psychology, nuclear
power, waste recycling,
polymer manufacturing, and metals manufacturing systems.
The Mars Homestead
team will present results of this study in various peer-reviewed
publications and conferences, beginning with the July SAE-ICES (International
Conference on Environmental Systems) in Rome. At this conference,
Georgi Petrov, team architect and recent graduate of the MIT School
of Architecture, presented a paper that describes the Homestead's
architectural design. In August, at the Mars Society Convention
in Boulder, Colorado, the team will deliver a track of eight presentations
covering multiple technical areas. Additional presentations of study
results and technical concepts will be given at the Meridiani Base
Workshop in August, and at the ASCE Earth & Space, AIAA Habitation,
NSS International Space Development, and MIT Mars-Week conferences
in the coming year.
The Mars Foundation's
scientific and technical team continues to refine and expand upon
these concepts. They have created a settlement technology roadmap,
and are
establishing a series of special task forces that are making more
detailed investigations of specific technical areas not covered
in the initial study, including space suit design, Earth-Mars transport,
robotic automation and surface vehicle design. These efforts are
being pursued with the assistance of student groups at MIT, University
of Illinois, University of Central Florida, and University
of Michigan.
More information
about The Mars Foundation is available at www.MarsHome.com “Mars
Foundation”, “Mars Homestead”, “Mars Homestead
Project” are trademarks of the Mars Foundation.
Web Site = http://www.MarsHome.org
Contact Details
= Joseph Palaia
508-532-0617
info@marshome.org
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