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This is a 2 part collaboration with Joseph from Times Infinity, all about SpaceX , Starship and our plans to get to Mars. In part 1 we look at How to get to Mars and here we look at how to make Mars a home.
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This is a two part collaboration with Times Infinity, in part one we discussed how and when SpaceX plans to travel to Mars, and now we are going to look at what Space X could do on Mars in the quest to make humans a multi planetary civilisation.
So we have have achieved the biggest feat of mankind, we have arrived at Mars, our nearest chance of a realistic second home in the universe, so, umm, now what? What has SpaceX got planned to get us cozy and settled in?
Let us start by looking at Elon’s original plan for a Mars mission, way back in 2001 where the goal for Mars was much simpler. At that time, SpaceX didn’t even exist and the plan was to send a greenhouse to Mars with the goal of inspiring humans with the images of life growing on a barren red planet over 100 million kilometers away. However, the price of reaching his goal was well over 60 million dollars just to launch his dream into space, so after several failed negotiations for a rocket, Elon decided to do it himself, and start his own space company, which we know now as SpaceX.
Over time, the plan for what SpaceX would do on Mars took on a much more grand scale, with the vision shifting from inspiring people back on Earth, to directly settling and colonising Mars. The plans at first were secretive and only discussed as comments from Elon himself, as early as 2007, Elon expressed interest in one day exploring and colonizing Mars. Rough timelines were drawn up in the mid 2010’s, with an aspirational goal of humans on Mars by early 2020. By 2013 many more details were known, with the name of the Mars Colonial Transporter given, it was determined it would ferry people to and from Mars as the most powerful rocket ever built. By 2015, the plans were publicly announced, and a vision of a million people on Mars began to show just how much more massive the vision SpaceX had for Mars had grown. SpaceX now plans not only to land humans on Mars, but to fully settle, colonize and terraform Mars in the long run.
So once on Mars, what options do we have for setting up the initial infrastructure and a base?
The first two of SpaceX’s Mars missions will be uncrewed cargo ships that will be tasked with finding natural resources that can be used in future missions and to provide fuel for Starship to make 2 way trips with ease. These missions will also bring vital initial supplies like power generating machines and life support systems for the first humans to use.
Further missions will then send manned and unmanned starships to set up propellant production plants that will turn will turn water, ice and carbon dioxide into usable fuel for the starship in the form of liquid methane and liquid oxygen. These steps will be vital for the longer term two way transportation of humans and cargo to set up infrastructure on the red planet.
So what about a base, how will that work?
Starship itself could be a very interesting option for a Mars base, at 50 meters in height, large cargo bays and being made of useful building materials, it would seem like a very attractive option using it for a Mars base. However, there are some drawbacks. Starship is designed to be fully reusable, like a jet liner, imagine decommissioning a brand new aeroplane after a single flight, the cost to fly on that plane would be enormous. The idea behind starship is to reduce the cost of a flight as much as possible, so other methods will be needed to construct a Martian colony.
Outside of simply using Starship as a base, the logical process will most likely be building outwards from the initial propellant production plants, forming larger colonies into towns and eventually fully functioning and habitable cities....
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