It’s easy to forget the vast amounts of progress which have been made to the→

Mars. You stand on the surface for 2 minutes and you’re dead. It is a radioactive, oxygen-deprived landscape of poisonous soil. So why bother colonising it when we have enough problems here on Earth?

Science editor Jack Davies discusses the merit of being the first billionaire into space.

It’s unlikely that our current Solar System will be our home forever. In fact, it’s impossible. With an expiration date on both Earth and the Sun, it’s practically unarguable that humans will eventually have to leave the Solar System to survive. While currently, the idea of interstellar travel seems more in line with science-fiction than science-fact, it’s unreasonable to think that this will always be the case.