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Have a card? In the years after that, several attempts were made to raise additional funds, but they were unsuccessful. Despite that, Mars One has had an impact on Mars exploration by promoting the idea of permanent settlement. The risk of doing a return mission before you have adequate launch infrastructure on Mars is simply too great. The first time you hear the idea of permanent settlement, you might think it is out there. But the second or the third time, you realize that some humans are and have always been explorers.
Throughout history, there have been humans with explorer genes that picked up their stuff and tried to settle in a place where no human had gone before. Exploration has never been free of risk, and all space exploration presents very real risks and challenges. Establishing a permanent settlement on Mars is very complex, but it is far less complex, less risky, and requires much less infrastructure sent to Mars than return missions. Only a mission design that involves permanent settlement results in a technically feasible mission with an acceptable risk to the crews.
Mars One has made a lot of people more passionate about Mars exploration. And we believe these seeds we planted will make it a little bit less hard for the next group that plans a permanent settlement mission to Mars. Before people will be able to colonize Mars there is a demonstration mission planned for It will provide proof of concept for some of the technologies that are important for a permanent human settlement on Mars.
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