November 29, 2004

Information & Recruitment Meeting @ MIT

Mars Homestead Project
Information & Recruitment Meetings

Thursday, December 2nd
11:00AM - noon
MIT Room 66-319, Chemical Engineering Building

Friday, December 3rd
Noon-1:00PM
MIT Room 4-237

PLEASE ATTEND EITHER MEETING, CONTENT WILL BE IDENTICAL

The Mars Homestead Project is to design the first permanent settlement on Mars for 12 people, and build it using primarily local materials. We are seeking volunteers for the next phase of design studies. There are a number of fun areas to discuss, plus good potential thesis topics, IAP and UROP projects.

This covers most every area studied at MIT, but expertise is especially needed in chemical engineering, material science, plastics engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, industrial engineering, geology & mineralogy, metallurgy, and agriculture.

The primary area of focus for the upcoming design effort will be investigating technologies and processes useful for the manufacture of materials from local resources (dirt, rock, CO2 - atmosphere, subsurface water, plant products, and reused spacecraft components, etc).

Such manufacturing reduces the mass of required materials brought from Earth while simultaneously establishing infrastructure that can be used for settlement expansion.

The design studies will begin with some minimal review of background material leading to an intensive IAP workshop. If you or someone you know would be interesting in working on this exciting project, please attend our introductory session or Contact Us.

If unable to attend, but interested as an IAP or Spring semester project, also contact Contact Us.

You can help open this new frontier!

Thanks,

Joe Palaia
Bruce Mackenzie
The Mars Homestead Project
To Arrive, Survive & Thrive!