A MASTER PLAN FOR MARS:
FROM TRANSPORTING THE FIRST COLONISTS
TO TOTAL TERRAFORMATION OF THE RED PLANET
This paper was done as a part of NASA’s Mars Millennium Project, a project to design a colony for one hundred people on Mars in the year 2030. The project began in the spring of 1999 and was made for teams of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. I became involved with the project when a commercial aired for it during “Star Trek: Voyager” one night.
The point of the project was to create a community for the first hundred colonists on Mars, but I have expanded my project from just the colony to designing a ship with state of the art propulsion systems to cut down on transit time, and terraforming Mars. This is entitled the Emissary Project, as these 100 intrepid voyagers will be our ambassadors to the Red Planet. Emissary is also the name of the ship transporting the crew to Mars. It will be launched in July 2030 to arrive at Mars, avoiding dust storms and catching Mars at its closest point in its orbit to Earth.