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Best stuff about #Mars exploration and human colonization of Mars in news and popular culture - fiction, art, movies, games...

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

In season 5 of sci-fi series @ForAllMankind_, set in alternate 2012, international Happy Valley on #Mars has grown into a settlement of >5000 residents.

Here we collected hi-res screens, showing colony's exteriors and interiors without major plot reveals: https://t.co/GsjlQ6sAaC

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

10 years ago, in October 2016, we published the 1st version of our speculative Mars Colonization Timeline. As the timeline is regularly updated and expanded, it now differs significantly, and we thought it would be interesting to revisit the original: https://t.co/so7Wx1ICV8

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos https://t.co/QovD4u2gAY

[Lunar Citizen @LunarCitizens]

Japan’s getting really good at bringing space rocks home. If asteroid mining ever takes off, that experience could give them a serious head start.

On the 20th, they’re launching MMX on an H3 rocket to Phobos, one of Mars’ moons. The plan is to land twice, collect about 10 grams of material, and bring it back. Nobody’s ever brought samples back from the Martian system.

Hayabusa brought home the first asteroid samples. Hayabusa2 followed up at Ryugu, collecting material from multiple spots. Japan’s been building on that experience ever since.

Everyone else is racing to land on Mars or build Moon bases. Japan’s quietly getting better at one thing: bringing a piece of space home.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NASA has opened final bidding for private space stations to replace the ISS 🛰️

The winning stations could take over from the ISS as early as 2030

NASA plans to pick two or more companies, with winners expected to be announced in spring 2027

[Outer Space Today @outerspacetoday]

JUST IN: NASA says its Moon Base is running ahead of schedule, with the first element now expected to launch in December followed by near-monthly robotic missions to the lunar surface beginning in early 2027.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency expects to beat the original national-space-policy target of putting the first Moon Base elements in place by 2030.

The plan is to send infrastructure, rovers and other equipment ahead of astronauts so hardware is already operating on the surface when crews arrive.

NASA is also developing a public website that will allow people to follow construction of the lunar base as missions arrive.

“We’re leaving no doubts this time,” Isaacman said. “It’s all in HD.”

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

Starship Flight 15 is expected in 4-6 weeks and will attempt to catch BOTH Booster and Ship!

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

This will be the background image on so many desktops! 😍

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship's first orbital flight

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Mars will be more than just a frontier. It will be a home.

[Mark Anthony @Muskstaycalm]

The sum of it all, making life multiplanetary.

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

SpaceX electromagnetic mass driver at Moonbase Alpha to launch into orbit Moon-made data centers. The renders in the post are from an animation which was demonstrated during @ElonMusk's #Terrafab presentation on March 22, 2026: https://t.co/ettko5bx2U

[Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett]

Earth moon cycler orbits are interesting especially if an industrial base is set up on the moon.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

SpaceX: Geaux for Launch.

https://t.co/FJu4ulY1KZ

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

After China formally delays Chang'e 7 into 2027, the race to the South Pole of the Moon is back on.

https://t.co/xlEbJpdb9f

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

@AndrewatL5 @voyager212 Yes. This is the correct approach for human missions into deep space.

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

Earth-Mars cycler is a specialized orbital trajectory designed to shuttle spacecraft between Earth and Mars on a regular, repeating schedule.
Here is a concept for such a cycler system with two cyclers by Maciej Rebisz @voyager212: https://t.co/26Id80MIkk

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

@voyager212 You're welcome! A good concept with nice visuals 👍

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

Looks like a scene from Interstellar.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

The threat of China's plans to explore the Moon is about to become very, very real.

https://t.co/Z6bXmG7Fi2

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

@elonmusk This ship (literally😅) deserves to be put in a museum! Please, Elon, don't scrap it!

[human Mars 🔴 @human_Mars]

@elonmusk This ship (literally😅) deserves to be put in a museum! Please, Elon, don't scrap it!