In Christmas, the fourth chapter of Mars Frontier, the international crew of the first manned mission to Mars discover that differences between nationalities and religions can’t be left behind on Earth.
Filed under: Fiction on September 17th, 2003 | 2 Comments »
In the third chapter of Robert Stockman’s novel, Mars Frontier, the astronauts take a flyby of the asteroid 2015AS.
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Continuing our serialization of Robert Stockman’s novel, Mars Frontier, New Mars is happy to present the second chapter, Flight.
Filed under: Fiction on August 19th, 2003 | 4 Comments »
What’s the best way to raise Mars’ profile in the public? Stuart Atkinson believes that, quite literally, we need to place it in the public eye with a visual extravaganza named Mars - The Movie. And to give the red planet the justice that wasn’t given to it by certain recent movies, it will naturally be filmed on IMAX…
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Starting from this week, New Mars is proud to present the serialization of Mars Frontier, a novel by Robert Stockman on the first manned mission to Mars. The first chapter, Gateway is now online and additional chapters will follow every week.
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Martian Law - an interesting and thought-provoking white paper by the Cato Institute discussing the best choices for law on the red planet when colonization occurs.
“Mars is a case of what political theorists would call a perfect state of nature. No one lives on Mars. No one currently has legal title to any part of Mars. On what basis then can Mars be exploited by individuals or consortia?”
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“As a 16 year old space fanatic, I watched the maiden flight of Columbia in a state of breathless anticipation and excitement…” Stuart Atkinson, a lifelong space enthusiast and long time contributor to New Mars gives us his thoughts on the Columbia disaster and where we should go now.
Filed under: Articles on February 6th, 2003 | 6 Comments »
Stuart Atkinson comments on this week’s news of NASA’s new nuclear powered spacecraft project - Prometheus - with a healthy dose of realism, thoughts about cloning, and life on Mars and in the universe. It’s not science that will get the public to support a manned mission to Mars, argues Atkinson - it’s all about life.
Filed under: Articles on January 25th, 2003 | 5 Comments »
At New Mars, we’ve just created the ‘Mars Wiki’ webspace. A ‘wiki’ is a tool for the collaborative creating and editing of stories, papers, information and knowledge, and one wiki called Wikipedia has managed to create a collaborative encyclopedia with over 50,000 entries! If you’re interested in working on our Mars wiki, or just want to find out more, visit the New Mars Wiki.
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There’s a great story on Digizine about the crew of the Mars Society Mars Desert Research Station creating music in collaboration with other musicians across the world via the Internet.
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