Frequently Asked Questions

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We would travel to Mars using a fleet of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and Starship vehicles.

Falcon Heavy can deliver approximately 10–15 tons of payload to Mars per launch, while the fully reusable Starship is designed to carry up to 100–150 tons in its final configuration.

To transport all the habitat modules, life-support systems, power generation equipment, rovers, and initial supplies required for a sustainable settlement, we would launch a coordinated fleet of these spacecraft during the same Earth–Mars transfer window. This multi-ship approach maximizes efficiency, minimizes total mission time, and avoids the delays and wasted opportunities that would come from relying on a single launch vehicle. By sending everything needed in one synodic cycle (every ~26 months), we ensure the colony can begin operations immediately upon arrival rather than waiting years for follow-on shipments.

The medical infrastructure is not “coming later.” It is already there, waiting.

Every obstetrics/gynecology/neonatal suite, every isolette, every perinatal surgical theater, and every 3D-printable replacement part for a fetal heart monitor or a neonatal ventilator was robotically installed, tested, and stocked before the first human Starship ever touches down. These are not “field hospitals”; they are full-spectrum perinatal centers that would make most Earth hospitals jealous, complete with:

• Level IV NICU equivalents (able to care for 22-week preemies if necessary)
• Centrifugal delivery rooms that can spin up to 1 g for labor and birth if ongoing animal studies or early human data suggest it is beneficial
• Real-time genetic screening and CRISPR-based correction capability for radiation-induced mutations
• Artificial wombs (ectogenesis pods) as a backup technology for high-risk pregnancies—a technology that will be mature by the late 2020s on Earth, and will simply be shipped with the early cargo fleets
• A dedicated pediatric wing with longitudinal growth protocols, growth-hormone regimens, resistive exercise devices scaled for children, and, if needed, pharmacological bone-density interventions

They will never even get here. We will see them leave Earth orbit and arrive nine months later to find a planet that has been watching them the entire time.

The Outer Space Treaty (Article II) explicitly forbids national sovereignty claims over celestial bodies. Aurora is not launching as a “research station” under any flag; we are launching as the founding population of a sovereign civilization. The moment the first child is born under the Martian sky, the legal fiction of “this is just an outpost” dies. That child has never been subject to any jurisdiction on Earth. Within one generation, the majority of the population will be native-born Martians who owe nothing to Earth.

We are not hiding our intentions. The entire Aurora charter is built on the explicit endgame of full political and economic independence. When we reach self-sufficiency (projected 15–25 years after founding), we declare independence unilaterally, the same way every successful colony in history has done it. 

We would integrate wildlife in phases:

Phase 1: cultured meat, spirulina, mycoprotein, hydroponics (no live animals). 

Phase 2: frozen-embryo cats/dogs, aquaponic fish/shrimp, and honeybees. 

Phase 3: (20,000+ people): dwarf goats, quail, butterflies—full ecosystem restoration on Mars’ terms, without cruelty or inefficiency.

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Every other Mars plan—SpaceX included—is at heart an engineering problem with a little HR optimism sprinkled on top.

Aurora is the only one who treats Mars as the deliberate cradle of a new, intentionally superior branch of humanity.

1. Robots build the entire city first—hospitals, neonatal ICUs, factories, greenhouses, art galleries—so humans arrive at a real home, not a construction site full of death traps.
2. We are engineering a moral immune system. The curated canon (Frankenstein, Les Mis, Star Wars, WALL-E, Beethoven 9, Goya, Starry Night, etc.) is chosen to vaccinate the new civilisation against tyranny, nihilism, and ecological stupidity. This is not “entertainment”; it is cultural antivirus.
3. Children are the mission. Full perinatal hospitals with artificial wombs and centrifugal delivery rooms are pre-built by robots. First pregnancies start in years 3–5. We are sending founding parents of a new species, not astronauts on a camping trip.
4. Independence is the stated endgame from page 1. When self-sufficient (~15–25 years), we declare it. 
5. A biosphere without cruelty: cultured meat day one, embryo-bank cats & dogs, eventual domed ecosystems with birdsong—no factory farming, no methane, no suffering.

Every other proposal is about “how do we not die on Mars?”

Aurora is about “how do we become something greater than human once we get there?”