The Mars Polar Project
Mars Polar is the name of an international organization founded in 2015 that aims to create the first human colony on Mars in 2029.
It brings together experts from Russia, the UAE, Poland, US and Ukraine, and it is headquartered in Dubai, in the tallest tower in the world what's more, the Burj Khalifa. Which is an interesting detail, because this country multiplies the signs of interest in space exploration, and could therefore be a weight support in this ambitious private project.
One feature of this project, is it intends to establish a colony in the polar region of Mars, because of abundant quantities of water ice. Two simple reasons justify this choice, the first is that it would offer this valuable resource to the humans who live there, the second is the search for extraterrestrial life on this planet: "Life begins where the water exists".
The plan of the mission is in part inspired by the Mars Direct mission, from Robert Zubrin, and also plans to use the Falcon 9 launcher or the Heavy Falcon and the Dragon capsules.
The first robotic exploration rover should be sent in 2018, and subsequently other tasks needed to build the first Habitat. The first human mission statement is planned for 2029.
After that date, MarsPolar wants to send four to six astronauts every two year from this year.
MarsPolar account today to build a Space Center in the UAE, and have already begun the selection process for future astronauts.
While similarities with the MarsOne project are numerous, the founders of the project say they do not want to compete with it.
For me, all this seems very interesting, whole world experts who meet in the most prosperous city of the earth to prepare the exploration of Mars.
We can begin to consider that in a future that appears increasingly close, colonization of Mars will not be done by one organization or nation, but simultaneously by several space agencies, like US, Russian, Chinese and European, but also by private projects like MarsOne , MarsPolar or SpaceX ?
Credits: marspolar.space
