TIMELINE

1 DELIVERY AND LOCATING | 2050

The first mission will deliver cargo and a Rover to land on Mars. While the general location will already be known, the rovers’ task is to find the ideal spot within the area.

2 CARGO DEPLOYMENT | 2053-2065

Initial cargo components of the settlement have reached their destination in landers. The two rovers take all components to the settlement location, release the swarm team, deploy external structures such as solar panels and radiators, and prepare for the later arrival of the astronauts.

3 PRELIMINARY HABITAT | 2061

The swarm team, rovers and 3D printers begin to work on the base of minimal configured habitat. The inflatable is now set up and the shell is 3D printed.

4 CREW ARRIVAL | 2064

We are ready for the First Crew Arrival on Mars. Later, cargo missions arrive, bringing additional living units, life support units, and rovers and swarm.

5 SUBSEQUENT INFRASTRUCTURE | 2068

All further missions in the years after the arrival of the first crew are to benefit infrastructure and to begin expansion. The infrastructure for the second crew arrives and is installed by the first crew. Multiple habitats and ECLSS modules are now available to nominally sustain the first crew and to complete pressurization of the two new living modules.

6 EXPANSION | 2085

Multiple Crew Expansions, several crews of astronauts have now landed on Mars. They are received by their predecessors who have completed the construction of the settlement. As successive Mars atronauts and people arrive, the settlement will grow in its capacity for scientific research, experiments, and exploration of Mars, and eventual general living.

7 AUTONOMY | 2105

By this point the astronauts are almost autonomous of earth and quickly fill the city to its full capacity. The expansion continues to be built at maximum efficiency.