Research Goals
- Create a unified planning document with requirements for the first permanent settlement on Mars.
- Identify core facility, mining, manufacturing, agricultural, and other technologies needed.
- Determine how relevant terrestrial research can be conducted to advance knowledge of these technologies.
- Determine schedules for terrestrial research
- Conduct research into core technologies and methodologies with terrestrial facilities
- Determine best methods to utilize materials & resources on Mars
- Create prototype terrestrial-based hardware to demonstrate utilization techniques
- Build analog terrestrial facilities to finalize Mars settlement building techniques and test operations
- Establish key commercial and financial interests to support a Mars settlement.
- Emphasis is placed on Mars resource utilization and manufacturing to reduce transportation requirements and cost.
- Partner with other organizations (commercial & non-profit) whose goals align with permanent settlement design.
- Develop a framework for coordinating activities that are in the common interest of perspective private, commercial, and public involved parties.
- Generate a detailed plan for launching & building the settlement on Mars
- Not tied to specific hardware
- Determine methods to deliver cargo and crew for an initial permanent settlement of 12 crewmembers.
- Settlement would possess an integrated manufacturing capability
- Settlement would possess capability to seed other settlements
- Assist with the exploration of Mars with a focus on permanent settlement enablers
- Survey Mars for underground water & mineral sources
- Gather data to determine adequate locations of permanent settlements
