Inside; Mars [Architectural Thesis]

1.2
Inevitable
Mars conquest
Going to Mars:
Coupled with the advancement of technology.
developments in the space industry in the
recent years has pushed the idea of space
tourism and interplanetary travel to be less
of a fantasy.
With Elon Musk’s plans of colonizing Mars,
SpaceX has developed Starship 9 , is a fully
reusable transportation system that would be
the main mode of transport of both materials
and people to Mars. Aside from consisting
of a reusable rocket booster, Starship is able
to carry a payload of more than 100 tonne.
This makes space travel more affordable as
time and material is saved from having to
build new boosters for each trip, and the cost
of each space trip is also split among more
people. Using methane as fuel 10 (Rincon,
2021) also contributes to this mission as it
can be generated using Martian resources,
which allows for the spacecraft’s return trip
to Earth.
Amidst these developments, Elon Musk has
suggested over social media that he plans
to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050.
Although the possibility of reaching this
number is extremely low given that space
flights can only occur every 26 months when
the orbits of Earth and Mars align (which
means over 300 trips each day during the
30 day window frame of the Earth-Mars
alignment, assuming each trip carries 100
passengers), even 1% of this goal would
mean a substansive amount of people to form
a city.