Transmissions gathers the long-form writing of Aspiring Martians — considered pieces shaped from thoughtful conversations with people already thinking deeply about life beyond Earth.
These articles are not about rockets, spacesuits, or oxygen scrubbers. They focus on the quieter questions. Food. Clothing. Sleep. Relationships. How people cope with isolation. How communities form when Earth is just a pale dot in the sky.
Each Transmission distills real experience and informed perspective into an editorial journey through the choices, constraints, and everyday realities that will define what it truly means to live on Mars.
The Uncertainty of Pregnancy Beyond Earth
IVF, loss, and the quiet work of building families beyond Earth with Kellie Gerardi
When Faith Leaves Earth
How Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity adapt when humanity moves beyond its home planet.
Pressurized Suits, Pressurized Minds
What decades of extreme-work research say about Mars.
The Martian Pet Predicament
What bringing pets to Mars reveals about what we think “healthy” means.
Stay. Good Boy.
What it would mean to build a world where the “goodest boy” cannot follow.
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The first businesses on Mars won’t sell dreams. They’ll sell survival — and quietly decide who shapes the next civilization.
The Right Martian Stuff
Robert Zubrin on the skills, temperament, and culture required to settle Mars.
Everyday is Casual Friday
What Martian fashion tells us about identity, survival, and the future of being human.
What Talking on Mars Will Really Feel Like
Inside NASA’s year-long Mars simulation, every conversation came with a delay—and every delay taught us something new about the future of human spaceflight.
Let’s Talk About Sex
If we want to live on Mars, we need to talk about what nobody’s talking about.
How to Stay on Mars
Before we can settle the Red Planet, we’ll have to rethink what it means to call a place home.