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The two most common reasons in favor of colonization are the survival of humans and life independent of Earth, making humans a multiplanetary species, [7] in the event of a planetary-scale disaster (natural or human-made), and the commercial use of space particularly for enabling a more sustainable expansion of human society through the ...
Colonization of Mars differs from the crewed Mars exploration missions currently pursued by public space agencies, as they aim to land humans for exploration. [6] [7]The terminology used to refer a potential human presence on Mars has been scrutinized since at least the 2010s, [4] with space colonization in general since the 1977, as by Carl Sagan, who preferred to refer to settlements in ...
A growing number of scientists think human colonization of the solar system is inevitable. It's not clear when we'll see humans walking around on the moon or Mars, but it's coming, and it's going ...
As early as 2007, Elon Musk publicly stated a personal goal of eventually enabling human exploration and settlement of Mars. [5] Subsequently, SpaceX has stated its goal is to colonize Mars to ensure the long-term survival of the human species, [6] proposing since the 2000s and early 2010s different concepts for reaching Mars, including space tugs.
Three experts told Insider about the scientific, medical, and ethical challenges of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' ambitions to colonize space
One of the primary arguments for space colonization is to ensure the long-term survival of the human species. In the event of worldwide artificial or natural disaster a space colony would allow the human species to continue on. [5] Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator in 2006, stated the case as follows:
Stephen Hawking is a supporter of space travel, in part, because he thinks the survival of humanity depends on it. Hawking shared these thoughts in an afterword for Julian Guthrie's book "How to ...
Space and survival is the idea that the long-term survival of the human species and technological civilization requires the building of a spacefaring civilization that utilizes the resources of outer space, [1] and that not doing this might lead to human extinction. A related observation is that the window of opportunity for doing this may be ...