Mars Settlement Design Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Description:
Want to open up a new world to live in?
This workshop's goal is to develop a technical plan to start flexible
manufacturing
and growing food on Mars, using materials made on Mars (in-situ),
with minimum equipment brought from Earth.
Details will be worked out by you, the participants,
but may include 3D printing, recycling and production of polymers on-site,
production of other building materials, and on-site assembly of
habitats and greenhouses.
Portions can be adapted from past designs by the Mars Foundation and other
plans.
If there is interest, we can include Mars rover design, social,
economic, political aspects, and suggestions for a business plan.
Please contact us early, if possible, to help our scheduling.
Attendance at most morning sessions is expected.
Additional design sessions may be scheduled in the afternoons at your
convenience.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/19 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
Mars Settlement Design Workshop
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Want to open up a new world to live in?
This workshop's goal is to develop a technical plan to start flexible
manufacturing
and growing food on Mars, using materials made on Mars (in-situ),
with minimum equipment brought from Earth.
Details will be worked out by you, the participants,
but may include 3D printing, recycling and production of polymers on-site,
production of other building materials, and on-site assembly of
habitats and greenhouses.
Portions can be adapted from past designs by the Mars Foundation and other
plans.
If there is interest, we can include Mars rover design, social,
economic, political aspects, and suggestions for a business plan.
Please contact us early, if possible, to help our scheduling.
Attendance at most morning sessions is expected.
Additional design sessions may be scheduled in the afternoons at your
convenience.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/11 | Mon | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 4-265 |
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
Mars Settlement Noon Series
Bruce Mackenzie, Mars Foundation
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
A series of presentations on how to economically build an early human
settlement on Mars, emphasizing use of local materials.
Sponsor(s): Students for Exploration and Development of Space
Contact: Bruce Mackenzie, text: 781-944-7027, voice: 781-249-5437, BMackenzie@alum.mit.edu
| Jan/15 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive manufacturing base
for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can grow into a permanent
human settlement; a draft design in progress by the Mars Foundation.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 07:00PM-09:00PM | 4-265 |
This Hillside Settlement proposal by the Mars Foundation would build
a permanent settlement on Mars, constructed by 12 people from local
materials such as fiberglass and masonry. Preliminary mass and cost
estimates show that we may be able to establish a permanent, growing
settlement for the same launch cost as a program of round-trip
exploratory missions. Members of National Space Society are invited.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/22 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Producing polymers on site at Mars, for fabrication of furnishings and
bonding composite habitats.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/25 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Proposal for a very small, relatively inexpensive manufacturing base
for Mars. It starts with just 2 people, and can grow into a permanent
human settlement; a draft design in progress by the Mars Foundation.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/26 | Tue | 08:00PM-10:00PM | 4-265 |
Discussion of Living on Mars, and the portrayal of a Mars mission in
"The Martian" book and movie by Andy Weir. Technology permitting, we
will join a web cast with Andy Weir, hopefully with more than just
hexadecimal communication.
EDIT: Please note the updated date and time.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
| Jan/29 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-265 |
Open discussion of the ethics of raising children at an early
settlement on Mars or other frontier location.
Bruce Mackenzie - Mars Foundation
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