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2016: Mars One Supply Mission
Credit: Mars One/Bryan Versteeg
Mars One plans to launch an unmanned supply mission in January 2016. It will land that October with more than 5,000 pounds of food or other supplies.
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2018: Mars One's Rover Scout
Credit: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg
The Dutch nonprofit Mars One aims to land a rover on Mars in 2018 to find the best spot to set up a human colony.
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2021: Setting up the Mars Colony
Credit: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg
All components of Mars One's settlement are slated to reach their destination by 2021. The hardware includes two living units, two life-support units, a second supply unit and two rovers.
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2022: Getting Ready for Mars Colonists
Credit: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg
All water, oxygen and artificial atmosphere production should be ready by 2022, according to Mars One. The first astronaut crew will be launched in September of that year.
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2023: Bootprints on Mars?
Credit: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg
If all goes according to plan, the first Mars One astronauts will touch down on the Red Planet in 2023.
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2025: The New Crew Comes to Mars
Credit: Mars One/Bryan Versteeg
In June 2025, the second crew of Mars One pioneers is slated to land on Mars in this artist's illustration. The Mars One project aims to send volunteer astronauts to the Red Planet beginning in 2023 to colonize Mars.
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Mars One Colony
Credit: Mars One / Bryan Versteeg
Artist's concept of Mars One astronauts on the Red Planet.
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Mars One Colony and Astronauts
Credit: Mars One/Bryan Versteeg
Artist's depiction of Mars One astronauts and their colony on the Red Planet.
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Mars One's Bas Lansdorp
Credit: Photo by Maurice Mikkers
Bas Lansdorp is co-founder and general director of Mars One, which seeks to land astronauts on the Red Planet in 2023.
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Mars One Million Martian Meeting
Credit: Mars One
A poster for the Mars One project's Million Martian Meeting to discuss plans for a Mars colony mission in 2023. The meeting was held in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 3.
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Mars One: Million Martian Meeting
Credit: SPACE.com/Tanya Lewis
Mars One volunteers for a one-way trip to colonize Mars in 2023 speak during a panel at the Million Martian Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 3, 2013.
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Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp in Washington, D.C.
Credit: SPACE.com/Tanya Lewis
Mars One co-founder Bas Lansdorp addresses the Million Martian Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 3, 2013 to discuss plans for a Mars colony mission in 2023.
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Mars One Habitat Interior
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
Interior view of a possible habitat on Mars by the Mars One project.
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Mars One Habitat
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
Interior view of a possible habitat on Mars for the Mars One project.
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Mars One Habitats
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
Mars One is a not-for-profit organization that will establish a human settlement on Mars through the integration of existing, readily available technologies from the private space industry.
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Mars One Logo
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
The Mars One logo.
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Mars One Colony - 2021
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
Mars One plans to launch an unmanned supply mission in January 2016. It will land that October with more than 5,000 pounds of food or other supplies.
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Astronauts and Mars One Colony
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
This image is an artist's depiction of Mars One astronauts and their habitat on the Red Planet. Mars One is a not-for-profit organization that will establish a human settlement on Mars through the integration of existing, readily available technologies from the private space industry.
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Artist's Depiction of Astronauts and Mars One Colony
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
Mars One will fund this decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of a televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission: from the astronaut selections, their eight-year training on a Mars-like mock-up on Earth to their arrival on Mars in 2023 and their lives on the Red Planet.
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View of Astronauts and Mars One Colony
Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
All components of Mars One's settlement are slated to reach their destination by 2021. The hardware includes two living units, two life-support units, a second supply unit and two rovers.
