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Welcome to Red Colony, the future of Mars... today!

We are an international symposium, spanning students and professionals, scientists and laymen alike, all with a desire to colonize and terraform Mars. Our visitors have the opportunity to submit ideas in these evolving fields, knowing they are literally writing the books on Mars. Their articles are discussed by the scientific community until the most comprehensive, efficient and realistic Plan is developed and enacted. Read the Introduction to find out more, or browse our user-submitted Library for popular articles about subjects that interest you.

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Credit: Hans L.D.G. Starlife

Nature's Agenda
- by Hans L.D.G. Starlife, June 21, 2005

The innocence of our childhoods is long gone. We have grown up, finding our respective places in society. Here, there is no room for magic wonders and beautiful fairytales. This is the real world, we say, rushing ahead with our busy lives, careers and businesses. But is it really? We Humans are very shortsighted, stuck in our own little time...

Sunday, March 25, 2008

Mars Phoenix Lander Update -- Touchdown!!!

"A signal has been detected from Phoenix indicating that the lander is on the surface of Mars."

I will continue to post news as it is available. For more, and up-to-date information, check out Phoenix page @ JPL

- posted by Jim @ 20:56 EST

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

ISDC 2008

MarsDrive will be attending and presenting at the annual International Space Development Conference this year- ISDC 2008 at the Capital Hotel in Washington D.C. MarsDrive Director of Engineering Ron Cordes will be making a presentation at 4:30PM on Saturday May 30th in the Ohio Room titled "The Mars Consortium" which will outline our progress to date on a new humans to Mars mission design and a strategy on how it could be funded. Hal Fulton our VP will be in attendance and we will have a booth there with various items that will outline our programs and how you can be part of the drive to Mars.

Feel free to pass this message on to interested friends and coworkers. We hope to see you there.

MarsDrive is also an affiliate to ISDC 2008 and that means any of our Basic or Pioneer Members receive a discount on their ticket price to this event of $35 if you register before May 23rd or a saving of $120 on a (full registration)ticket if you register at the event.

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- posted by Jim @ 7:58 EST

Monday, March 17, 2008

MarsDrive Supporting Mars Gravity BioSatellite

MarsDrive is pleased to announced that we have secured a place on the MarsGravity BioSatellite spacecraft for our logo to be launched in 2010. We would like to thank our supporters whose contributions have made this possible and will be setting a fund raising goal of $8000 for further support for this most important project in the next 12 months. If you would like to help us take this next big step you can donate by pressing the paypal button here. You can also find our logo at the "Your Name Into Space" website here.

The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project is a ground-breaking undertaking to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals. We are taking the first step towards human missions to Mars - and beyond. Data from this mission will make a significant contribution to our understanding of fundamental space biology and greatly advance human space exploration.

(From MarsDrive)

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- posted by Jim @ 7:58 EST

Friday, October 5, 2007

New plastic is strong as steel, transparent

"ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.

It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue."

(Source: University of Michigan )

- posted by Jim @ 8:44 EST

Sunday, September 2, 2007

MER's are Alive!

The MER rovers have survived the dust storm that threatened to decommission them. While the rovers are now producing electricity, they are only producing half of what they were before the storm, and there is still much find dust to settle, potently on the rover's panels.

The updating program is still broken; sorry for the lack of news recently (esp.: Crew ends Mars Mission sim and Martian Soil may show signs of life.

(More info: Register)

- posted by Jim @ 22:48 EST