How SpaceX & Elon Musk Will Uses Inflatable Habitats for Mars Colony
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How will Inflatable Habitats Revolutionize Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization?
Elon Musk is attempting to make the fiction of space travel a scientific reality with SpaceX Starship.
“why go anywhere? Right? I think there are really two fundamental paths. History is going to bifurcate along two directions. One path is we stay on Earth forever and then there will be some eventual extinction event. I don’t have an immediate doomsday prophecy, but eventually history suggests there will be some doomsday event. The alternative is to become a space-faring civilization and a multiplanet species.”
Yeah Musk’s laser-focused on ensuring to make a second home elsewhere in space, and has his sights set on Mars.
However, what after Starship sends humans to Mars? Try building a house without any of the materials mere Earthlings use to build houses!
That’s the challenge facing astronauts as they move forward with colonizing Mars. They’ll either need to bring materials with them, which will be wildly expensive and generally unreliable, or make use of the Red Planet’s rugged, inhospitable terrain.
Many believe that 3D printing will be a good solution. The fundamental idea behind 3D printing on Mars involves deploying autonomous robotic systems to collect regolith (loose dust and rock fragments) from the Martian surface. This regolith is then mixed with a polymer substance and heated to create a printable concrete-like material. The 3D printing machine constructs the structure layer by layer using this material.
Although this concept seems intriguing, it necessitates landing numerous robots on Mars, along with substantial energy requirements to power the entire process of collection, melting, and 3D printing. The outcome would essentially be an above-ground cave constructed from Martian rock, which could potentially be physically toxic to humans. Furthermore, the lack of knowledge about Martian regolith composition poses another challenge, as we do not currently possess samples to fully understand its properties. The assumption that we can simply transform it into a suitable material for building houses is more of an educated guess rather than a certain solution.
On the other hand, inflatable habitats emerge as a better promising and practical approach.
Well, this is not a new concept, the first formal design and manufacture of an inflatable space habitat was in 1961 with a space station design produced by Goodyear, although this design was never flown.
In 1989, a proposal released by Johnson Space Center’s Man Systems Division outlined a 16 metres diameter spherical habitat lunar outpost which was partially buried in the lunar surface.
How SpaceX & Elon Musk Will Uses Inflatable Habitats for Mars Colony
