MARS ONE Narrows Candidates for Red Planet Colonization

MARS ONE Narrows Candidates for Red Planet Colonization

Above: Artist rendering of a future Mars colony.  Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg, Mars One. After receiving over 202,000 applications from candidates all over the world, the Netherlands-based Mars One nonprofit announced that it has narrowed down its selection to 100...
Lunar Pits May Shelter Astronauts on Moon

Lunar Pits May Shelter Astronauts on Moon

An image taken by the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) of the ‘Sea of Tranquility’ pit-crater (Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). It’s no small challenge to build a settlement on the moon.  An endless barrage of micrometeorites, damaging solar...