Mars to Stay

<p>Mars to Stay missions propose that <a href="/facts/Astronauts/HB1bd6Lz">astronauts</a> sent to <a href="/facts/Mars/AQGtVvz0">Mars</a> for the first time should intend to remain there. Unused emergency return vehicles would be recycled into <a href="/facts/Colonization_of_Mars/7En499hD">settlement</a> construction as soon as the habitability of Mars becomes evident to the initial pioneers. Mars to Stay missions are advocated both to reduce cost and to ensure permanent <a href="/facts/Colonization_of_Mars/7En499hD">settlement of Mars</a>. Among many notable Mars to Stay advocates, former <a href="/facts/Apollo_program/IC1Ek1Ao">Apollo</a> <a href="/facts/Astronaut/HB1bd6Lz">astronaut</a> <a href="/facts/Buzz_Aldrin/meuu82u7">Buzz Aldrin</a> has been particularly outspoken, suggesting in numerous forums "Forget the Moon, Let’s Head to Mars!" and, in June 2013, Aldrin promoted a crewed mission "to homestead Mars and become a two-planet species". In August 2015, Aldrin, in association with the <a href="/facts/Florida_Institute_of_Technology/hFkhsDBX">Florida Institute of Technology</a>, presented a "master plan", for NASA consideration, for astronauts, with a "tour of duty of ten years", to colonize Mars before the year 2040. The Mars Underground, Mars Homestead Project / Mars Foundation, <a href="/facts/Mars_One/6QekyEBk">Mars One</a> (defunct in 2019), and Mars Artists Community advocacy groups and business organizations have also adopted Mars to Stay policy initiatives.
</p><p>The earliest formal outline of a Mars to Stay mission architecture was given at the Case for Mars VI Workshop in 1996, during a presentation by George Herbert titled "One Way to Mars".
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Mars to Stay