{"id":35159,"date":"2017-03-08T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:46:31","slug":"martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses","title":{"rendered":"Martian habitats: molehills or glass houses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article by Richard Heidmann, Association Plan\u00e8te Mars vice president \u2013 English translation by Etienne Martinache.<\/p>\n<p>After having analyzed the targets assigned by SpaceX to its project of an Earth-Mars transportation system which is supposed to set up and serve a Martian settlement (see \u201cl\u2019\u00e9tude MCT\u201d on the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planete-mars.com\">www.planete-mars.com<\/a>), we decided to address the issue of an essential aspect of the feasibility of the project, the design of the living areas (pressurized enclosures).<\/p>\n<p>This aspect was subject to many proposals, even though most of previous documented studies applied to upstream phases of human presence, those of exploration from a temporary base or from a permanent base with few residents and limited self-sufficiency. The consequences of the specific constraints related to a mass production of these enclosures, essentially from local resources, have seldom been considered.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/planete-mars.com\/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses\/\">http:\/\/planete-mars.com\/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Richard Heidmann, Association Plan\u00e8te Mars vice president \u2013 English translation by Etienne Martinache. After having analyzed the targets assigned by SpaceX to its project of an Earth-Mars transportation system which is supposed to set up and serve a Martian settlement (see \u201cl\u2019\u00e9tude MCT\u201d on the site www.planete-mars.com), we decided to address the issue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48589,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159\/revisions\/48589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}