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Who is the Villain in Mars Sample Return?
I bet you're wondering why I've gathered you all here.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
How should we think about Starship?
What started as the Mars Colonial Transporter risks becoming a humble space truck
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth
On the joys and tribulations of living through a golden age in microbiology
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
What Happened With Mars Sample Return? (I)
It's not clear whether to blame Trump, Musk, NASA, or Mars itself for the collapse of a flagship mission.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Why not Venus?
The planet next door may be rough, but it has a lot of atmosphere
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Let's talk space toilets!
A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Artemis II and NASA open thread
Many people are asking
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Four Levels of Panspermia
How a warm puddle of goo went on to invent the citric acid cycle and then TikTok is the question of abiogenesis.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
The Mystery of Non-Targeted Effects
The health impact of heavy ion radiation remains the biggest unknown in sending human beings to Mars
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Musk on Mars
A timeline of Musk's pronouncements about Mars exploration and settlement
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Artificial Gravity
There comes a point in reading about the health challenges of microgravity where you throw your hands up and cry, “just spin the spacecraft!”
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Eyes and Bones
There is good news and there is bad news for long-duration space flight
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
New evidence for old life on Mars
No one wants to stick their neck out, but it's getting hard to find abiotic explanations
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• Maciej Cegłowski
Is Mars Habitable?
Notes on the Martian housing crisis
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• Maciej Cegłowski
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