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  "abstract": "Establishing a lasting human settlement beyond Earth requires a habitable destination at arrival and sustained renewal of its population/infrastructure. We compare Earth delivery, robotic predeployment, local resource processing, localized manufacture under coupled protection, power, recovery, health requirements. In a 1,000-resident case, specific retention times and 1% annual growth require ~1.8 tonnes of equipment replacement/expansion per resident-year. Local manufacture raises mean site electricity from 11.8 to 19.5 MW; the declared retention range gives 17-26 MW at fixed processing intensity. A separate 100-ton/year pilot reduces 10-year deliveries from 1,000 to 419 tonnes after a 3-year commissioning ramp, while retaining imported inputs. Local production thus reduces freight by adding maintained capacity at the destination. Receiving capacity is bounded by replacement-adjusted supply, not passenger throughput. Published Martian transport gives ~63,000 tonnes of planar cover per hectare for the selected 10-mSv/year GCR allocation; Earth-like acceleration at 2~rpm requires a 224-m rotation radius. These scales favor local shielding and modular rotating habitats. Repeated 10-day wastewater outages every 35 days require capacity at least 1.4 times inflow; storage cannot correct a persistent deficit. Existing evidence leaves lifelong partial-gravity, mixed-field radiation responses, gestation, development and subsequent fertility unresolved. With sustained investment, recoverable habitats, resource pilots, controlled-gravity investigations are credible 10-20-year objectives; broad industrial renewal requires multidecade development. Earth-supported habitation is a credible development path. Independent population continuity requires demonstrated health, recovery, demographic resilience, essential-product renewal within one exposure/resource history; its completion cannot yet be dated.",
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      "name": "Slava G. Turyshev"
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  "title": "Sustained Habitation Beyond Earth: Health, Recovery, and Renewal",
  "title_text": "Sustained Habitation Beyond Earth: Health, Recovery, and Renewal",
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