Human Settlement on Mars

Human Settlement on Mars

Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024. Our first unmanned mission will be launched in 2018. Join the Global Mars One Community and participate in our mission to Mars.

Mars One designed a mission using only existing technology. In the coming years, a demonstration mission, communication satellites, two rovers and several cargo missions will be sent to Mars. A reliable living environment will be waiting for the astronauts when they leave Earth.

Astronaut Selection and Preparation

The global search has begun for the first humans to set foot on Mars and make it their home. In an extensive training period, candidates will learn the skills they will need on Mars and on their journey there. The combined skill set of each astronaut team member will cover a very wide range of disciplines.

In 1000 years, everyone on Earth will still remember who the first humans on Mars were. More than 200,000 men and women from around the world responded to the first call for astronauts.

You Make It Happen

The whole world will watch and experience this journey. We are all explorers. Everyone, including you, can participate in space exploration. This can be your mission to Mars!

Join our global effort by sharing our vision with your friends, supporting us and perhaps becoming a Mars astronaut yourself.

http://www.mars-one.com/

~PEACE~

I nominate Uncle Buck.
To be the first thorn in the side of Mars !

How bout the first manned mission to your bunghole?

Will thy martians be all blonde hair blue eyes?

Nice essay brue

You get a B-

Well if they use SPACE ROCKETS, they are going to owe you royalties.

i really do think humans will get to mars eventually... Without doubt

people thought going to the moon was crazy , so we've gone to the moon i definety think mars is next ....... Definetly


but there's one thing George with your mental health medical record they wont let you go.... Your not fit enough to live in a working environment on earth as it is let alone mars .......sorry george





but good luck...... I think nasa have it from here

I thought it said sentiment, so regarding the human sentiment on mars. I don't think they like us much. We are kind of dick heads.

I'm all for settlement/exploration. Big fan of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

Pretty lofty schedule, esp since we haven't had humans on the moon in over 35 yrs. We don't actually know if humans could survive the flight. We had more data when we went after the moon, live animal pre-lim launches (not that I'm advocating that). Just sayin

GET YO ASS TO MAHS!!!



C'mon Cohagen! Da people need aiah!

I really hope that this is something that we get to see take place successfully in our lifetimes. I was actually just reading a Neil DeGrasse Tyson essay about life in the universe, and according to some recent data that the Mars Curiosity rover just brought back, Mars' climate actually used to be a lot warmer, and may have at one point been temperate enough for life to develop. There'e even evidence that there was a massive flood there at one point. That's pretty insane! Perhaps there is hope that we could re-establish some sort of habitable human colony over there.

There goes yet another plant ..to fall to human domination and their shit

Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a trilogy of books about Martian colonization; Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars.

Three thick novels is plenty of space to lay out the challenges and opportunities involved.

I personally believe that if we as Americans are going to keep shoveling trillions of dollars at our defense establishment, that we at least ought to get something worth the money; if the Joint Strike Fighter program cost $1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS, surely a program to colonize Mars is affordable?

I'd say getting there first is definitely a national security priority.

heckler73 said:

Considering NASA operates on budgets of~$15Bn, a Trillion would get more than a MARS trip and a comet capture.

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Right. I think it's a better use of the same funds- and we can even pay the same defense contractors to build the necessary hardware so no one need feel like they're losing out.

Truth of the matter is that everything we do in space has strategic defense implications. It's time to take that more seriously.

The Moon is a stepping stone to Mars...

I enjoyed Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars novels...they provide the intricate details of the necessity of terra-forming and the human drama involving the successful colonization of Mars.
Two very different ways to reach Mars


I have read many novels concerning humans and Mars...Edgar Rice Burroughs, P.K Dick, R. Bradbury...


The single most entertaining novel regarding Mars and humans that I have ever read is Andy Weir's The Martian...much more linear than the Robinson Novels...overcoming and solving problems...is what it is about...
Good book!

I saw this article today and found it worthy of posting here...
wow, very interesting and possibly workable technology...

Firm behind Apple’s Spaceship HQ reveals plans for Nasa-backed 3D printed Mars habitat built by robots

• Will be built by three different kinds of robots parachuted to the surface of Mars
• Will house four astronauts and be built using regolith – the loose soil and rocks on the surface of the red planet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3249387/Firm-Apple-s-Spaceship-HQ-reveals-plans-Nasa-backed-3D-printed-Mars-habitat-built-robots.html

Also here is the trailer for the soon to be released The Martian, which did well at the Toronto film festival...
Winner: The Martian

Matt Damon in The Martian Aidan Monaghan / Warner Bros. Pictures

Occasionally, a really big Hollywood movie premieres at TIFF and proves to be also just a really great movie, and this year, that film was The Martian. Its heady mix of dense science and wry comedy proved intoxicating, largely due to three factors: 1)Screenwriter Drew Goddard’s (World War Z, The Cabin in the Woods) expert adaptation streamlined Andy Weir’s best-selling sci-fi novel without losing itscelebration of using real science to solve real problems; 2) Matt Damon gives a winning movie star performance as astronaut Mark Watney, who marshals all of his scientific knowledge to survive after he’s accidentally abandoned on Mars; and 3) Director Ridley Scott, who has not made a movie this fleet-footed and just plain enjoyable in years, maybe decades. The Martian’s pull proved so irresistible that this unabashedly commercial film has also picked up some considerable Oscar buzz into its orbit as well. (The Martian opens Oct. 2.) —A.B.V.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/2015-toronto-film-festival-winners-losers#.ucvBePJY9