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With a projected settlement date of 2025, the Mars One project has received over 200,000 applications for the one way trip to the Red Planet. Bryan Versteeg is a conceptual designer who’s been working with the Mars One team in anticipation of the planet’s eventual colonization.

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A group of wealthy, adventurous entrepreneurs will announce on Apr. 24 a new venture called Planetary Resources, Inc., which plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth, in the process adding trillions of dollars to the global GDP, helping ensure humanity's prosperity and paving the way for the human settlement of space.

After we recently talked about the project of the company Planetary Resources, which intends to do some space mining after building its Arkyd 100 spacecraft,

Asteroid mining ship

I had the honor of designing the new Space Colony kit for Kitbash 3D. It was a really fun project as I really love realistic looking sci fi and I could put all my research and ideas in this. I ended up making 71 individual assets as well as the Promo art. The assets were done in sketchup and photoshop for speed and flexibility. The promo was done in sketchup, keyshot and photoshop. I hope you like it! PS: try to find the easter eggs in the promo if you can ;)

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The concept images (pictured) were created by Californian artist Cuba Lee. He depicts how space miners will extract minerals from space rocks using large drills and gas chambers.

Asteroid mining station.