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Building Homes on Mars

Posted by: Adam Weiss
Thanks to: Adam Weiss
23 June 2004 - 1:00pm

MIT studies how future inhabitants of Mars can not only survive, but live a good life.

"If you have the heart of a homesteader and can endure a seven-month journey inside a container the size of a minivan, perhaps you will be among the first settlers of one of humanity's next frontiers: Mars."

"You may even find a comfy home -- made with locally produced red brick, metal and fiberglass -- waiting for you on the red planet, thanks to scientists and engineers, many of them from MIT, who are looking into the challenges of building homes on Mars."

Full Story: Builders in a Strange Land
Source: Wired, June 21, 2004
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