Alex Tolley follows up his analysis of agriculture on Mars with a closer look at the Interstellar Research Group’s MaRMIE project – the Martian Regolith Microbiome Inoculation Experiment. Growing out of discussions on methods beyond hydroponics to make the Red Planet...
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Can an Interstellar Generation Ship Maintain a Population on a 250-year Trip to a Habitable Exoplanet?
I grew up on generation ship stories. I'm thinking of tales like Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, Aldiss' Non-Stop, and (from my collection of old science fiction magazines) Don Wilcox's "The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years." The latter, from 1940, may have been the first...
Mars Agriculture – Knowledge Gaps for Regolith Preparation
Let’s break for a moment with interstellar issues to finish up a story I first covered at the beginning of the year. In 2022, members of the Interstellar Research Group led by Doug Loss began exploring the biological side of establishing a human presence on Mars. By...
Food production on Mars: Dirt farming as the most scalable solution for settlement
Colonies on other worlds are a staple of science fiction and an obsession for rocket-obsessed entrepreneurs, but how do humans go about the business of living long-term once they get to a place like Mars? Alex Tolley has been pondering the question as part of a...