The agency has already unveiled its vision of a spacecraft and a two-person habitat designed ... orbit as overseers. The Mars lander, intended to serve as a habitable base on Mars, is designed ...

Although the most common method is photosynthesis — and the resulting food web from that base ... to those on Mars. The researchers narrowed the list of potential habitat analogues to ...

which asked teams to build a 3D habitat that could shelter humans on Mars. The competition, which began in 2015, was divided into three phases: design, material technologies, and construction.