In a few years, SpaceX will land the first human crews of the permanent mission on the surface of Mars. More than 200 million kilometers from Earth, with no breathable atmosphere, no magnetic field, and no resupply for two years, a single question arises: how, concretely, does one build a city of one million inhabitants from frozen ground, a lethal sky, and a few hundred pioneers?
The Master-Plan of Arcadia is the engineering technical dossier that answers this question. In this book, you will discover all the solutions developed by engineers from NASA, SpaceX, and many other research centers, clearly explained and made accessible, covering the hexagonal geometry of hubs, evacuation and redundancy doctrine, stratified regolith shielding, atmospheric oxygen production plants, basalt fiber as Martian steel, the Hermin biodome, and the placental stratification of childhoods. Each subsection sets out the figures, ratios, construction schedules, and survivalist axioms of a first Martian city designed to endure for a thousand years.
Technical companion to the novel I Walked on Mars, this manual does not imagine Mars: it engineers it.
David Salvan, a French author, delivers here the first volume of a work that combines literary anticipation with engineering rigor, and lays the foundations of a civilization that Humanity may, perhaps, build within our lifetime.