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Now’s the time to finally catch up on "P-Valley," "We Own This City" and eight other shows well worth your weekends.

If you’re looking for a wicked good time this October, make ICON Park your first stop.

Playing Mars This photo provided by ICON and NASA in August 2021 shows a proposal for the Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Mars. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications Friday for four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. That's a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Food will all be ready-to-eat space food and at the moment there are no windows planned. Past Russian efforts at a pretend Mars mission called Mars 500 didn't end well partly because the people were too much like everyday people, he said.

Help wanted: NASA is looking for people to spend a year pretending they are isolated on Mars.

Barely a month ago, a 3D-printed house was listed for sale to the public for the first time in the U.S. Now, a small, 3D-printed community in Texas is following suit. ICON, a pioneer in 3D-printed homes in the U.S., just completed four homes in East Austin, Texas. In conjunction with developer Palari Group, the company just announced it will put up 15 3D-printed homes in what it deems "the world's first planned community of 3D-printed homes … centered around integration of technology and sustainability." Source: Mighty Buildings"This is totally different from concrete because our material is thermal efficient," said Alex Dubov, chief operating officer at Mighty Buildings. With demand for 3D-printed homes now so strong, the biggest challenge for these companies is how to scale up quickly.