Human mission to Mars Mars. Many Mars mission concepts propose precursor missions to the moons of Mars, for example a sample return mission to the Mars moon Phobos – not quite Mars, but perhaps a convenient stepping stone to an eventual Martian surface mission. Lockheed Martin, as part of their "Stepping stones to Mars" project, called the "Red Rocks Project", proposed to explore Mars robotically from Deimos. Use of fuel produced from water resources on Phobos or Deimos has also been proposed. An uncrewed Mars sample return mission (MSR) has sometimes been considered to be an essential precursor to crewed missions to Mars' surface
Mars One Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft, Mission Concept Artist Bryan Versteeg, Senior Marketing Strategist KC Frank, and Chief Information Officer Tom Van Braeckel. Mars One's team of advisers consists of over 30 industry and scientific experts, including Mason Peck, Peter Smith, James Kass, K.R. Sridhara Murthi, Esther Dyson, and Robert Zubrin. Mars One is not an aerospace company and will not manufacture hardware. Lansdorp assumes all major components are available in the aerospace market, and he thinks he has identified at least one potential supplier for each component of the mission. SpaceX mentioned that they had been contacted by Mars One,