Name: How to build for human life on Mars
Uploaded: 2022-09-26T14:52:41Z
Duration: 10 min 41 s
Description: We're going to be building on the Moon this decade -- and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonomous robots and 3D printers and explores how it might help uncover radical solutions to some of the problems troubling humans on Earth today.

We're going to be building on the Moon this decade -- and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonomous robots and 3D printers and explores how it might help uncover radical solutions to some of the problems troubling humans on Earth today.

Creating homes on Mars demands new thinking about materials, robotics, and well-being far from Earth. Limited by what rocketry can carry, 3D printers use Martian dirt and local resources to construct airtight, self-sustaining shelters before astronauts arrive. The same autonomous technologies that make off-world living possible can also inspire greener, safer, and more resilient buildings here on Earth. Projects like a lunar testbed and year-long Mars simulations in Houston are shaping future exploration and fresh approaches to housing challenges at home.