Visit Pioneer Works on September 5 as Prof. Janna Levin as she hosts Dr. Christopher Mason in a conversation across space exploration, biotechnology, and the ethics of designing humans for life off planet Earth. Stargazing with Amateur Astronomers Association to follow, weather permitting.
Tickets: pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-to-mars
Humanity has ambitions. As NASA’s Artemis mission prepares to inhabit the moon – ultimately with an eye on getting To Mars! – we have to consider the limitations of our bodies under the stresses of deep space exploration. The same ingenuity invested in spacecraft design to get us to Mars could theoretically be applied to biological design, to engineering humans that can sustainably inhabit deep space. But should we?
