June 19, 2004

Wired News on the Mars Homestead Project

We have received our first press coverage thanks to Wired News, in a article titled "Builders in a Strange Land". Both of our co-founders Mark Homnick and Bruce Mackenzie were interviewed for this article.

"Interplanetary colonists should be able to bring, or reconstruct, much of what they left behind on Earth soon after they land on Mars, said Homnick, a retired engineer who designed wafer-fabrication facilities for Intel...

Like the European settlers who came to America's shores in the 15th century, Martian settlers in the 21st century and beyond may have to build their homes using the materials they find at their destination, primarily for economic reasons."