Mars One
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former media project / scam themed around private spaceflight
Key facts
- Founded
- 2012 ; 14 years ago ( 2012 )
- Founder
- Bas Lansdorp
- Dissolved
- February 2019
- Type
- Private organization
- Legal status
- Defunct
- Purpose
- Permanent Mars settlement
- Location
- Netherlands
- Ceo
- Bas Lansdorp
- Key people
- Chief Technical Officer and co-founder Arno Wielders, Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft , Mission Concept Artist Bryan Versteeg , Senior Marketing Strategist KC Frank, and Chief Information Officer Tom Van Braeckel.
- Staff
- 4 (2012)
- Website
- https://www.mars-one.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- mars-one.com
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- Commons category
- Mars One
- inception
- 2011-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-01-15
- social media followers
- 83254
Sources (3)
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Article
Mars One was a small private Dutch firm that accepted money from investors planning to land the first humans on Mars and leave them there to establish a permanent human colony. From its announcement in 2012 until its bankruptcy in early 2019, it is estimated to have received tens of millions of dollars. Mars One was not an aerospace company and did not manufacture hardware.
Mars One consisted of two entities: the not-for-profit Mars One Foundation, and the for-profit company Mars One Ventures which was the controlling stockholder of the for-profit Interplanetary Media Group that also managed the broadcasting rights. The Mars One Foundation, based in the Netherlands, managed the project. The company had four employees, and intended to make profits by selling media (documentaries) about the personnel selection, training and colonization. The first mission was estimated by its CEO Bas Lansdorp to cost about $6 billion.