It's only a matter of time before human beings become an extra-terrestrial species. As people make plans for permanent settlements on the Moon, Mars, and beyond, what considerations are being made about what kind of society we want to create? How will we prevent our ancient tribalism from ripping us apart when we are one species on multiple planets? Will we even be the same species anymore? What will happen to future human DNA after multiple generations? Will religion still be a compelling force outside of our home planet? All those questions and several shameless plugs for "The Expanse" on the final episode of our space mini-series. 

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produced by Zack Jackson

Things to watch: 

The expanse (on Prime)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series) 

Away (Netflix)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80214512 

Things to read:

What Will Martians look like? - https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/the-big-questions/mars-colonists-might-evolve-entirely-new-type-human-n708636 

Roadmap to space settlements - https://space.nss.org/nss-roadmap-to-space-settlement-3rd-edition-2018-contents/

The Mars Society: https://www.marssociety.org/about/

Building a new society in space - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130318-building-a-new-society-in-space

NASA’s twin study - https://www.nasa.gov/twins-study/fun-facts-and-shareables 

Space chaplain Twitter https://twitter.com/ussf_hc 

Send artists to the Moon! https://dearmoon.earth/

Symphony for broken orchestra - http://symphonyforabrokenorchestra.org/