Human Settlement on Mars

Country of origin	Netherlands
Responsible organization	Mars One and Interplanetary Media Group
Status	Active
Program history
Program duration	2010 – present
First flight	January 2018 (planned)
First crewed flight	April 2024 (planned)
Vehicle information
Vehicle type	Capsule
Crew vehicle	Mars One Dragon (planned)
Crew capacity	Four
Launch vehicle(s)	Falcon Heavy (planned)

Mars One is a not-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands that has put forward plans to land the first humans onto Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025.
 The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, who announced plans for the Mars One project in May 2012.
 The Mars One organization is the controlling stockholder of the for-profit Interplanetary Media Group.Mars One's original concept included launching a robotic lander and orbiter as early as 2016 to be followed by a human crew of four in 2022. Organizers plan for that crew, selected from thousands of applicants who paid an administrative fee, to become the first residents of Mars with every step of the crew’s journey will be documented for a reality television program which would partially fund the project. In February 2015, the primary contractors on the robotic missions confirmed that work had ended on those missions with the completion of contracts on initial studies.
The project's schedule, technical and financial feasibility as well as ethics have been criticized by scientists, engineers and those in the aerospace industry.