Ramone and MARSHA

David Malott, the CEO at AI SpaceFactory, recently traded emails with Mickey Kulp about our Habs at Gordo Station.

Wait.  Pip says I need to explain about our Habs first. Okay, here goes:

I live in a cool-looking structure called a Habitat, or Hab for short.  I share Hab 5 with Pip and 11 other Rocket Team student astronauts. 

A big 3D printer, like a crane, created all the Habs.  It pulled in Mars soil, melted it, and squeezed out layers like rings of toothpaste.  When it hardened, it was as strong as concrete.

The design for the Hab and the gigantic 3D printer-crane-machine-thing comes from AI SpaceFactory.  They call it MARSHA.

So, now back to the beginning.  Mickey writes books about the Rocket Team, and he's got a new one coming out soon.  It shows his illustrations of our Habs.

Mick told David Malott about the book, and David said,

"Thank you Mickey. We are delighted to share our vision of MARSHA with your young readers. We’re counting on our future explorers to make the dream of living on Mars a reality!"

If you lived in a MARSHA Hab, what color would it be?  Tell me at

RamoneRocketeer -at- gmail -dot- com.