MIT STUDENTS ALREADY PLANNING FOR MARS COLONIZATION

MIT STUDENTS ALREADY PLANNING FOR MARS COLONIZATION

BOSTON (Wireless Flash) -- A group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on a project that's out of this world -- it's on Mars, to be exact. Ninety volunteers on the "ThinkMars" project are creating business proposals for companies that might serve human colonists on the Red Planet in the next millennium. Team leader Justin Talbot-Stern says the group is working on companies that would handle everything from rocket transportation and oxygen-filled habitats to tourist operations selling Martian rocks and other trinkets. The students will be presenting their plan to NASA at the end of May in the hopes of becoming an official company that would handle business ventures on Mars.

CONTACT: Justin Talbot-Stern, ***; Boston, MA; (617) 258-7984