Mars Astronaut Training

Mars Astronaut Training Future Mars Colonization.

The astronaut training guide for Mars.

Training begins on Earth living in caves, weightlessness scuba training, A.I. led Martian astronaut classrooms, and replicas of the Martian Colony at the Antarctica station.

The design of the Mars Training Space Station is based on the Mars Class Starship as Martian astronauts need to prepare for the 4-6 months long journey to the red planet.

There are 320 astronauts training at the Lunar Base engineers in their final stages of training for their specific Mars colonization missions. From bio-dome expansion and fuel production construction to Martian farming.

In the era of New Space, billionaire Elon Musk is blazing the trail. He’s building a gigantic starship to fly humans further than ever before. In the tiny Texan hamlet of Boca Chica, a huge rocket is being built and tested. It’s Elon Musk’s Starship, a 120-metre-high spacecraft whose mission is to transport humans to the moon and beyond, to Mars.

Musk and his company SpaceX are at the forefront of what’s being called ‘New Space’, the rush to commercialise the space sector. His ambition is extraordinary; he wants to colonise the Red Planet.

“It’s helpful to have the objective of a self-sustaining city on Mars. This has to be the objective”, says Musk. In his quest to perfect the Starship, Musk has been blowing up prototypes. “He doesn’t really care if it’s messy, he doesn’t really care if it appears to be chaotic, he’s trying to go forward into the future as fast as possible”, says space writer Eric Berger.

But the mighty rocket has its critics, including a former head of NASA, Charlie Bolden. “The difficulty for me as a huge fan of SpaceX, but a huge sceptic about Starship is the fact that it’s so big, it’s so massive”, says Bolden. “If Neil Armstrong were alive today to talk to them, he would probably say, “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” US correspondent Sarah Ferguson heads to Texas to see Musk’s space base up close. She joins a band of devotees in Boca Chica, from Gene the local surfer to MaryLiz and Ryan who are dedicating their lives to documenting the billionaire’s space odyssey.

She speaks to members of the ‘space establishment’ former and current NASA executives who’ve decided to accept and work with the great disruptor. NASA recently awarded Musk a multi-billion-dollar contract to build its next moon lander. “I think actually this will be a perfect example of ‘New Space’ and ‘Old Space’ meeting together in a great new mission”, says Kathy Lueders, head of the NASA mission to send humans back to the moon.

Sarah travels to Florida’s space coast to witness the launch of SpaceX’s Inspiration4, the first-time civilians have flown into orbit. Musk is a polarising figure, but he’s changed forever how humans view space.

Space travel has never been so accessible. Entrepreneurial vision teamed with more affordable and reliable technology has resulted in a space revolution that is giving rise to a whole new world of possibilities. But those at the forefront are grappling with everything from the inherent risk of space travel to the management of space junk.

Even more challenging is that nation states including America and China are already staking their claims in this new world with designated Space Forces and a growing militarisation of space. As science fiction becomes science fact, the challenge will be to see if humankind has learned the lessons of life here on earth.