Mama dropped you too many times as a baby, but you wanna show people your smarts... then when space travel comes up in a conversation, tell them that concepts for using a chemical system to go to Mars is soooo twentieth century. Tell them that instead we'll be using a plasma ion system along with an advanced propulsion system, using the Earth's gravity as momentum to get us to Mars. They'll think yous a genius baby!
Concepts like this and other future concepts for space travel and artificial gravity experiments are being developed by Larry Bell, from Space Architecture. He's using design to conceptualize the future of lunar experiments. Unlike problems on Earth, designed objects in space face different kinds of problems; Solar Radiation, lunar soil clogging mechanical parts, extreme cold and heat that could mean death, and space sickness syndrome (where your body is disoriented).
How do you protect the users? How do you land these vehicles on the moon's surface? How do you design a system for hydroponic experiments in zero gravity? Some future concepts they're developing are inflatable solutions to create the desired area needed for the experiments to be done in space.
Maybe this kind of thing isn't so far off in the distance future...