Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a good candidate for a space settlement? What kind of orbiting habitat could we build there? And what would it be like to settle on the surface of this icy world?
00:00 Settling on a Moon
00:40 Moving to Ceres
02:25 O’Neil Cylinder
04:41 Living in a Space Habitat
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