Humans on Mars Initiative

  • Humans on Mars

    Pathways to a long-term sustainable exploration

  • Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

    “Learning how to produce metals and other materials on Mars will promote a transition from fire-driven to electricity-driven and CO?-emission-free materials engineering for the first time ever.”

  • Kurosch Rezwan

    “Thinking the unthinkable is what drives me. Mars is the perfect place for that.”

  • Anastasiya T?njes

    “Another planet means other materials. For me, as a materials scientist, it is a big challenge. With ‘Humans on Mars‘ I can explore the future today.”

  • Sven Kerzenmacher

    “Martian reality will force us to find radically new approaches in coping with scarcity and foster resource efficiency. This mindset will also help shaping sustainable life on Earth.”

  • Katharina Brinkert

    “The exploration of space and protection of Earth go hand-in hand: the complementary approach of the Martian Mindset shows us how much space and Earth science can learn and benefit from each other.”

  • Cyprien Verseux

    “The Humans on Mars Initiative is an exciting opportunity to combine my expertise in space biology with that of others in fields far apart – and ultimately, to help make Mars exploration sustainable.”

  • Lutz M?dler

    “The Humans on Mars Mindset requires an engineering vision into a world of unknowns and constrains - not far from what we have on earth, but more extreme and less complex at the same time.”

  • Frank Kirchner

    “Humans on Mars tackles an extremely important challenge with respect to robotics research, it has the potential to achieve mayor breakthrough towards robots that are fit for everyday life.”

  • Daniel Meyer

    “The unique boundary conditions on Mars require to re-think manufacturing in a multi-disciplinary approach which will lead to exciting developments also applicable to the challenges on Earth.”

  • Christiane Heinicke

    “We set out to find ground-breakingly new answers to sustaining humans on Mars. I love the interdisciplinary challenge and the inevitable implications for our life on Earth.”

  • Kirsten Tracht

    “Mars habitat planning enables a radical new paradigm of producing with sustainability and full circularity from product design, material sourcing to maintenance and end-of-life.”

  • Marc Avila

    ”Mars has extremely limited natural resources. Under the premise of scarcity, our cross-disciplinary team researches how to sustain humans on Mars and applies the lessons learnt to Earth.”

Humans on Mars

Wir untersuchen Wege zu einer nachhaltigen, menschlichen Erkundung des Mars in sieben vom Land Bremen gef?rderten Projekten. Die Projekte konzentrieren sich auf menschliche Aspekte, wie die Interaktion und Kommunikation zwischen Menschen und gemischten Mensch-Maschine-Teams, auf Habitate und Lebenserhaltungssysteme sowie auf die verantwortungsvolle Gewinnung lokaler Ressourcen für die In-situ-Produktion von Verbrauchsmaterialien und Ersatzteilen.

 

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Exzellenzcluster "Die Marsperspektive"

Der Exzellenzcluster "Die Marsperspektive" baut auf der jahrzehntelangen wissenschaftlichen Expertise in zwei Forschungs- und Transferschwerpunkten des Landes Bremen auf: Materialwissenschaften und ihre Technologien sowie Luft- und Raumfahrt. Seit 2021 vereint und erweitert die "Humans on Mars"-Initiative dies um die Bereiche Verhaltenswissenschaften und Kommunikationstechnik zu einem interdisziplin?ren Konsortium.

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Forscher:innen und Leitung der Universit?t Bremen stehen nebeneinander in einem Foyer.

Historischer Erfolg: Uni Bremen wirbt erstmalig zwei Exzellenzcluster ein

Wissenschaftler:innen aus den Meeres- und Materialwissenschaften überzeugen in der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und L?ndern: Zwei Exzellenzcluster gehen nach Bremen. Damit qualifiziert sich die Universit?t auch für die Bewerbung um den Titel ?Exzellenzuniversit?t“.

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