Looking for some inspiration in these COVID-19 times?
Here are the winners of the Mars Society City State Contest - Nexus Aurora!
There were 175 entrants to this competition and the quality, breadth and ingenuity of the winning presentation is awesome.
The Nexus Aurora team is fully international and open-source - you can get involved on their website.
They got together online and were stuck in lockdown and bored and put together this amazing competition entry.
Here is a link to their very professional written competition entry.
And here is Elon Musk speaking with my old friend Dr Robert Zubrin - President of the Mars Society.
The 23rd Mars Society Convention - the first done virtually - was the best attended ever, with over 10,000 people registering.
Some good things have come out of COVID-19.
I attended the first couple of Mars Society Conventions more than 20 years ago and established the Australian chapter of the Mars Society.
An Aussie team -Southern Cross Innovations - came second in the competition.
