13 Facts About Mars Society

Mars Society is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human Mars exploration and colonization, founded by Robert Zubrin in 1998.

The Mars Society aims to garner support for the Mars program by lobby the United States and other governments.

Since its founding, the Mars Society has hosted its annual International Mars Society Convention and operated Mars analog habitats, named the Mars Desert Research Station and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station.

In 1981, the first public conference for Mars Society exploration was organized and named Case for Mars Society, by students at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Five more Case for Mars Society conferences took place since its first, ending in 1996.

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On 13 August 1998, the Mars Society was founded in its first conference in Boulder, Colorado, which took place for four days and attended by 750 people.

The Mars Society's founding conference emphasize its focus at the Mars Direct plan and efforts of lobbying the government, holding that there is no technical reason that would prevent a human mission to Mars within a decade.

In mid-2001, the Mars Society received a $5000 check from Elon Musk for a fundraiser event.

Mars Society left the Mars Society shortly after, wanting to do a Mars-related publicity stunt mission on his own.

Shorter missions were done in 2009 and 2013, before another long-duration mission called Mars Society 160 was conducted in 2017, in collaboration with the MDRS.

Mars Society's aims are testing plans of a human mission to Mars on Earth, lobbying governments and garnering public support for such a Mars mission.

Main project of the Mars Society is the Mars Analog Research Station Program, detailed below.

The MARS Oz is in the planning phase by the Australian Mars Society and replicate a spacecraft launching directly from the Earth's surface.