Big Problems (Notes)

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Our mission architecture integrates solutions for several major problems with current space exploration. These are the major issues that an exploratory expedition or small scientific outpost do not need to consider - so most mission plans don't. Some of these problems are known technical issues while others are major unknown unknowns: we don't even know how major the risks are. The big problems are as follows:

* **Biome Engineering:** Human beings will only survive as part of nature, part of an engineered biome we bring with us. Our project integrates more than just a few hydroponic crops - in fact we are prototyping this sort of biome here on earth with biourban design and urban farming.
* **City Planning:** This project builds a town. This must be a place that meets the hierarchy of needs for citizens. A community where people can live rewarding lives, raise families and build a better future.
* **Galactic Cosmic Rays:** GCRs represent a generational genetic threat to a small Martian population. Bold explorers can take a higher dose where settlers need to be more cautious.
* **Industrial Power without Nuclear Reactors:** It is unlikely that more than a few nuclear reactors will be sent to Mars for a commercial project and those will be tightly controlled by Earth governments. Commercial technologies will have to provide enough power for an industrial base.
* **Economic Products & Services:** A local, planetary and interplanetary economy will requires products and services be offered. Surviving in space is not enough, to thrive a settlement must be productive.
* **Permaculture:** More than just a farming style, living sustainably is the only way to build a permanent culture that will flourish. The systems thinking that allow survival at an outpost resupplied from Earth needs to be expanded with an eye to the future. Systems thinking is needed to integrate all the levels of complexity into a self sufficient, robust human habitat.
* **Permanent Low Gravity:** It may take generations to understand the effects of living full time in low gravity. We sidestep the unknown unknowns with spin pseudo gravity (i.e. rotating stations, gravity trains) at earth standard gravity.
* **Toward the Stars:** A presence on and around Mars opens up the belt, outer planets and beyond. Our mission architecture builds a foundation for further settlement where many other approaches do not.

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The big problems thread through our entire project, to explore them look for a notes page topic under Analysis & Administration that fits.

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## Mars Deca Direct Resources

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* Rules of this Wiki
* Introduction
* Mars Starship Types
* Solar Spacecraft
* Analysis & Administration
* The Settlement
* Space Based Solar Power
* Type G Tether Pods
* Earth Return Architecture
* Earthbase
* Mars Tourism & Media
* Advanced Mission Options
* Aldrin Cycler Fleet Refit
* Convoy Composition
* Other Neighbors In Town
* USS Hope Mars Mission Analog
* Utilities & Resources

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