The Mars Society is an organization dedicated to furthering the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. Anyone can join, and more importantly contribute. One way of contributing is by joining one of the Task Forces.

The Task Force that I decided to join Is the Technical Task force, and more specifically the Life Support Project. The stated goal of this project is to provide a biological waste treatment facility for the F-MARS 2001 season, with more ambitious goals further down the road.

I will be adding any information I collect to this page. Contributions are welcome.

• A brief bibliography. This file is in an XML format. It is still under construction and is not completely valid with respect to the DTD listed at the top. Please see the PubMed site for more details on the DTD. If you don't know anything about XML but are still interested in the bibliography, just let me know.
• A table of various waste amounts generated per person day.
• A table of trash returned from STS-51D.
• 0.617 kg/day/person dry food weight.
• 2000+ wheat plants/m2 (optimum?)
• 2800 kcal (wheat, edible) / 13m2 Max
• Information on potential CELSS crops.
• A list of halophytes (salt tolerant plants)
• A growing set of links to other sites related to space life support issues.