This Week in Space 9

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, and living on the moon and Mars won't be easy. This week we talk to Pascal Lee, planetary scientist, polar adventurer and chief of the Houghton Mars Project Arctic research facility to explore how living on other worlds might be accomplished. Also, it's busy at the Kennedy Space Center, the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps images of Perseverance's landing gear, and a recent flyby of a massive asteroid, saying, "I'll be back!"

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Links

• Private Ax-1 astronauts return to Earth, ending historic SpaceX mission
• Ingenuity Mars helicopter snaps amazing photos of Perseverance rover's landing gear (video)
• NASA to repurpose OSIRIS-REx for second asteroid encounter
• 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building will skim past Earth Thursday, NASA says
• Living Underground on the Moon: How Lava Tubes Could Aid Lunar Colonization
• The Mars Institute
• pascallee.net
• It missed us by 9 days
• Pascal Lee Artwork
• Haughton-Mars Project