Whether or not humans will colonize Mars in the near future is no longer a matter of debate.
But what’s a lot less certain is exactly how we’ll pull it off.
There’s a good deal of skepticism about the merits of breaching this next space frontier in the scientific and commercial communities alike. And with good reason: On our own planet, the world is burning (literally in California, the Amazon, and Indonesia to name a few current locations), our ice caps are melting, and around the globe species are dying out.
