If we want to colonize the Red Planet, our houses will need to be able to keep us alive. A planned design workshop will be attended by Jim Erickson, project manager of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover, and Madhu Thangavelu, a professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering, and Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin, among many others. Teams see Mars as an opportunity to think long-term and plan sustainable cities, something we didn’t do with Earth. Neurosynthesis: an urban settlement with a closed river system and an artificial Martian waterfall.
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