Offworld Voyage: Designing A Plant Based Mars Base

Offworld Voyage is a space analog research project that focuses on the design and development of ecologically sustainable all-vegan Earth-based habitats that are modular and self-contained. 

The facilities are intended for use in live immersive intermediate fidelity simulation missions that simultaneously solve for interplanetary exploration as well as adaptation to climate bio-devastation on Earth. 

Offworld Voyage missions are designed for those enthusiastic about a future when space exploration is made accessible to all by new types of organizational and economic structures that go beyond the traditional ways in which space has been accessed.

The M.A.R.S. Tesseract habitats (co-designed by Scott Beibin and Michael Flood) consist of modular interconnected dome structures mounted atop space frame platforms which include:
Green-Habitat / Bio-Dome
Science Lab
Space Medicine Bay
and Makerspace/Fab Lab

Research immersion activities will include:
• EVAs in pressurized spacesuits embedded with biosensors
• On-site indoor cultivation of nutrient rich vegan foods (plants, algae + fungi)
• Development of open source decentralized communications and coordination tools and protocols
• Mission Support / Mission Control training
• Participation in Decentralized Science / Citizen Science initiatives
• Psychological analysis of the effects of isolation
• Simulation of interplanetary delayed communications
• Geological analysis and mapping
• Use of state-of-the-art tools including various spectrometers and 3D scanners
• Off-grid and autonomous power production
• Testing of rovers and robots
• Collaborative problem solving and creativity and community building exercises
• Fabrication and repair using in-situ resources and materials recycling and upcycling
• Immersive experience narratives and gamified challenges
• Intensive Zero-Waste exercises to reduce resource consumption in the face of extreme scarcity
• Water purification and re-use
• Composting and re-processing of organic waste
• Practice in collectivist, autonomous and decentralized decision making processes
• Pop-up-cities and hackathons.
& much more!

The talk is presented by Offworld Voyage founder, Scott Beibin & director of operations, Elizabeth Jane Cole.