January 11, 2005

Help design a Mars Base! Engineers & writers especially needed!

We are welcoming new volunteers for the next phase of design studies. There are a number of areas to address, and good topics for student research, thesis, etc. (Several people asked to join in the middle of our previous project, but we could only take new folks at the start of a phase, which is now.)

The primary area of focus for the upcoming design effort will be investigating technologies and processes useful for the mining, refining, and 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.

Most anyone can contribute in some way, but expertise is especially needed in chemical engineering, material science, plastics engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, industrial engineering, metallurgy, geology & mineralogy.

The project can also use help for writing, editing, graphics, and web.
If you or someone you know would be interesting in opening a new world, please send us a message here: http://www.MarsHome.org/about/contact.html.
or send email to Info at MarsHome . org