Description

C -space as it is called is located in the Gobi Desert, some 40 km from Jinchang in China's northwest Gansu province. There are the well-known billionaire game-changers in the private space business like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, but this project is interested in the lesser-known, but no less dedicated, players along the journey to Mars: the idiosyncratic visionaries, often cash-strapped and working in the grey areas of the law, that are developing technologies for space travel and exploration. Around the world, interest in space is growing and for the past two years I have been closely following advancements in Mars colonisation research in Asia, United States and Europe, from Mars architects, doctors, farmers, and engineers to homemade rocket builder...