Mars One
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| Country of origin | Netherlands |
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| Responsible organization | Mars One and Interplanetary Media Group |
| Purpose | Human Mars landing |
| Status | Proposed |
| Program history | |
| Program duration | 2012–present |
| First flight | 2022 (proposed) |
| First crewed flight | 2032 (proposed) |
| Vehicle information | |
| Crew vehicle | Mars Transit Habitat |
| Crew capacity | 4 |
| Launch vehicle(s) | Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy (Proposed) |
The Mars One organization has proposed to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025.
Mars One consists of two entities: the not-for-profit Mars One Foundation, and the for-profit company Mars One Ventures. The Mars One Foundation, based in the Netherlands, implements and manages the mission. Mars One Ventures holds all monetization rights, including broadcasting rights.
The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced the Mars One project in May 2012.
Mars One's original concept included launching a robotic lander and orbiter as early as 2020 to be followed by a human crew of four in 2024 and one in 2026.
Organizers plan for the crew to be selected from applicants to become the first permanent residents of Mars with no plan of returning to Earth.
Partial funding options include a proposed television documentary program documenting the journey.
The project's schedule, technical and financial feasibility, and ethics, have been criticized by scientists, engineers and those in the aerospace industry.
In February 2015, the primary contractors on the initial pre-Phase A contracts had completed all studies paid for by Mars One at that time. The current state of the Mission Plan Deliverables (either in the form of Studies or actual Hardware) will be tracked in Table 2 in the Technology section.
The Mars One organization is the controlling stockholder of the for-profit Interplanetary Media Group.
The concept for Mars One began in 2011 with discussions between the two founders, Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders.
The Mars One project has no connection with Inspiration Mars, a similarly-timed project to send a married couple on a Mars flyby and return them to Earth over a period of 500 days.
Mars One publicly announced the concept in May 2012 for a one-way trip to Mars, with the intention of an initial robotic precursor mission in 2020 and transporting the first human colonists to Mars in 2024. In a 2015 debate, Bas Lansdrop clarified that "we’re not going to do, I think, the current design of the mission" and "Mars One's goal is not to send humans to Mars in 2032 with a $6 billion budget and 14 launches. Our goal is to send humans to Mars, period." According to Mars One's website, "It is Mars One's goal to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars."
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