Title: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planet Colonization
Headings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planet Colonization
A Step-by-Step Guide to Planet Colonization
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Content: President Obama declared that the U.S. plans to send manned missions to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025 and Mars by the mid-2030s. The majority of progress toward space settlement is being made by the private sector. A successful test flight of a reusable space capsule has been completed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Other companies, including Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures, provide low Earth orbit flights and overnights at space stations. An inflatable space hotel is being planned by Bigelow Aerospace. How? The Earth is a very special place, and that’s putting it mildy — it has the right climate for humans to survive, the water we need to drink and the oxygen we need to breathe. To make another planet sustain life (at least as we know it), we’re going to need these elements as a bare minimum requirement. For colonizing other areas, large-scale life support systems would be needed to maintain living conditions for humans — created through a process known as terraforming. This is will be possible inside an enclosed biosphere, which must be made of durable and robust materials. These locales will enable humans to grow food and sustain life.