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In this concise manual, Dr Casey Handmer integrates his recent experiences over five years in the Caltech graduate school of astrophysics into a constructive, positive survival guide for budding academics. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes and minimize the risk of research distraction. Read tips for dealing proactively with every variety of organization and personal challenge. Dr Handmer made the mistakes so you don't have to.

What are common misconceptions in writing about space? Why do they exist? What are cognitively robust ways of overcoming confusion when dealing with an environment so far beyond our intuition and experience? What is the latest on SpaceX's rockets and satellite constellations? What might a city on Mars or the Moon look like? Why is asteroid mining or space solar power a bad idea? Will space cities be like my favorite sci-fi? What are the best launch-adjacent start up opportunities? This book is an accumulation of essays focused on improving the state of public discourse about space.

"Really enjoying [Casey Handmer's] "How To Industrialize Mars," which is full of interdisciplinary thinking and clever ideas..." Nat Friedman "[Casey Handmer's] "How To Industrialize Mars" is a stimulating, optimistic, and fun exploration!" Michael Nielsen "I almost never recommend a book until I've finished reading it, but every space settlement geek needs to read "How To Industrialize Mars." Trent Waddington After humans visit Mars, a city will be born. This city's mission: Autonomous self-sufficiency. The challenge: Mars is a deeply lethal, hostile frozen desert vacuum. This book ...

Mars is the greatest challenge to our species. Increasing our planet number to >1 represents the defining technological hurdle for indefinite survival. So what's so hard about it? This book, written for the general public, represents an introduction to the scale and nature of unsolved problems for crewed deep space exploration, something that may happen within the next decades.