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SUMMARY:Logistic and economic challenges to realize a Martian village
DTSTART:20190522T180000
DTEND:20190522T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T135339Z
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DESCRIPTION:Pierre Brisson (Mars Society Switzerland)\nThe constraints tha
 t must be taken into account for the establishment of a Martian Village ar
 e well known and solutions to the challenges they put\, are theoretically 
 possible. All that is missing is the will to implement them.\n \nThe cons
 traints are inherent to Mars' specificities and our technological ability 
 to deal with them.\n \nTwo phases of preparation should be considered. Th
 e first is to substantiate on the theoretical level (feasibility studies) 
 what we know and what we have designed\, to carry up the necessary technol
 ogies to an acceptable Technology Readiness Level\, and to structure the f
 inancial framework that will allow this concretization and the continuatio
 n of the project towards completion. The second is to build the necessary 
 infrastructure for transport\, accommodation and services on Mars\, and th
 e human operational capacity of the Martian village.\n \nBeyond\, the pro
 blem\, more difficult to solve than the establishment of the Martian villa
 ge\, will be to achieve creating the conditions of its sustainability. Suc
 cess will depend on the dedication of private entrepreneurs who should be 
 leading the project\, on maintaining the support of the State agencies (NA
 SA!) throughout the preparation and realization periods\, and on getting a
  positive response of the Public among which the clients will arise. This 
 response will be conditioned on the one hand by the affordability of the p
 rices that the promoters of the Village will be able to offer and on the o
 ther hand\, by the strength of the clients motivations in the field either
  of scientific research\, or satisfaction of engineering feat or\, plainly
 \, adventure spirit. A lasting response will be conditioned by the ability
  of the Mars residents to make enough money individually and collectively\
 , not to impose a seemingly everlasting burden onto their Earth promoters.
 \n\nPierre Brisson was one of the founding members of the US Mars Society 
 in 1998. He became member of the board of its French branch (“ Associati
 on Planète Mars”) in 2003 and re-founded its Swiss branch (“Mars Soci
 ety Switzerland”) in 2009. He graduated as an economist (Master of Arts 
 of the University of Virginia) and worked worldwide as a corporate banker 
 in a major French institution but has always been an “amateur” planeto
 logist. He is regularly organizing or giving conferences in Switzerland an
 d France to spread the idea that Mankind must intensify its robotic and in
 habited missions to Mars. He is also contributing one post each week in hi
 s blog “exploration spatiale” hosted by Swiss French speaking newspape
 r Le Temps.
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