Summary

Our project is a kind of poster which shows that life on Mars is possible in near future. Using science twinned with our innovation and exploration the probability of life on Mars is one. Because of the greater distance, the Mars mission would be much more risky and expensive than past Moon flights. Supplies and fuel would have to be prepared for a 2-3 year round trip and the spacecraft would need at least partial shielding from ionizing radiation. In a 1990 paper by Robert Zubrin and David A. Baker, then of Martin Marietta, proposed reducing the mission mass by using in situ resource utilization to manufacture propellant from the Martian Atmosphere.