Observations, strategies, and reports from the frontiers of technology and space exploration.
The principles that make a Mars analog mission work are the same ones that make an engineering team work. Not metaphorically. Literally the same principles, applied to different environments.
Using compost, spirulina, and a custom PhotoBioReactor, our MDRS Crew 261 mission grew tomato seedlings in Mars regolith simulant.
An update on how I see things progressing in my new role as Executive Director of The Mars Society.
From founding member in 1998 to Executive Director — two decades of building technology infrastructure for the world's largest Mars advocacy organization.
An analysis of the concurrent space races unfolding across lunar exploration, Mars missions, and outer solar system destinations — and the concrete milestones that define them.
Twenty technologies needed for human civilization on Mars — each representing both an engineering challenge and a potential startup opportunity.
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