David S. F. Portree provides a fascinating account of the Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project carried out in 1997, in which four NASA scientists lived in an air-tight life support chamber for ninety days to gather data for extended human missions in space.
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Will the colonists of Mars really make significant technological advances, as predicted in The Case for Mars? Examining the lessons history has taught us from the last great frontier humanity colonized, America, Vernard Foley believes so.
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On the 100th anniversary of The War of the Worlds, Ryder W. Miller explores the literary heritage of the red planet and how the prevailing science fiction of the past can be used as an indicator for our attitudes and perceptions of the future.
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Former Manager of the NASA Exploration Programs Office Dr. Humbolt C. Mandell considers the other problem in sending humans to Mars; convincing the humans on Earth that they should pay for the mission.
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Richard L. Poss provides an excellent analysis of the various arguments used for and against the exploration and colonization of Mars, drawing comparisons with our current situation and similar historical events in the past.
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With all the travails of an extended mission to Mars, any crew must be an integrated and compatible team. In this article, Roy Clymer argues the case for the self-selection of teams as the way forward for increasing compatibility within teams.
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Originally published in 1998, Kathleen Bohne gave this refreshing look at the colonization and terraformation of Mars at the first Mars Society Convention in Colorado as a twelve year old.
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Could the true goal of Generation X be to send the first humans to Mars? George Whiteside believes so.
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Gabriel Rshaid, co-ordinator of the Mars Academy in Buenos Aires discusses the problems, opportunities and rewards in teaching space science to high school students.
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