Mars Colonization Timeline

This is what I imagine are the required steps for the Mars missions over the next 5-7 years.  This is based on lots of reading and of course my imagination. 

2025: Getting ready

• 2025: Perseverance collects Cyanobacterial ice. Analyzing it very carefully. It could be the basis of human life on Mars.

• March 2025: Three Starships land near Olympus Mons to deliver supplies

• Water, Food, Scientific equipment and Hydroponic modulators are delivered. They will be used when the first humans on Mars will land.

• April 2025: Curiosity starts building a CynoPlaster dome on the Sea of Jerezo. Perseverance installs solar panels near Valles Marines.

• August 7th, 2025: Mars is in sync with earth in orbit at 569.678 Alignment Units. 

• December 4,2025: Seven Starships guided by 78 Falcons launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

• December 22, 2025: Astronaut Austin Kelli dies of cancer in space. His body is blasted into space.

2026: Humans on Mars

Arrivals: 60

Departures: 0

• March 21, 2026: Six starships land near the newly-built Mars Dome and start planting hydroponic plants such as Potatoes, Eggplants, Peppers  and Radishes.

• March 23, 2026: Three more domes are constructed and used as Living Quarters and Gardens. Astronauts Allison Kelly, Robinson Hart Jr. and Zora Kelly build six Ford Mars Rovers. 

• April 2, 2026:  Seven Blue Origin rockets land on Mars in Valles marineris and two rovers start digging an underground colony. 

2027: Exploring the planet.

Arrivals: 12,000

Departures: 0

• January 25, 2027: Blue Star starts building Sentry Towers encircling Mars Base Alpha and Mars Base Beta. 

• February 1,2027: Valles Riveres is carved by an icy river created by humans.

• February 6,2027: A Geothermal plant is built on Valles Aquarius.

• February 12, 2027: Tesla Mars Exploration Rovers (TMER) starts driving up Olympus Mons. 

• April 5, 2027: Tesla Mars Exploration Rovers end.

• June 9, 2027: Eighteen Starships land near SpaceX base with 12,000 arrivals. Starts building Mars Base Omicron, along with Mars Exploration Rovers (MER).

• July 12, 2027: Qausar International Space Agency launches Jerboa I.

• November 19, 2027: Colonists start digging for ice. 

• December 3, 2027:Colonists find ice 4.54 miles under the surfaces. 

• December 11, 2027: The 1,500 colonists start 3D Printing an underground inflatable habitat. The inner inflatable habitat is the main residence which is surrounded by an outer shell made of the tilled Mars soil and CyanoPlaster mix.

2028: Terraforming and Telescopes

Arrivals: 15,000

Departures: 12

• January 1,2028: Mars population doubles from 11,000 to 12,000.

• January 8, 2028: InMars Exploration Rover launches towards Mares Valles River. 

• February 10, 2028: Eighteen starships land, carrying 513 astronauts and engineers. 

• March 12, 2028: Families start moving to Mars; rovers start building a third Megadome, completed with the first martian aquaponic greenhouse.

• March 22, 2028: The first Tesla Gigafactory is completed, making Tesla rovers and Robotic Assistants.

• May 11, 2028: Elon Musk visits Mars and starts the Martian Highway Project, completed 20 years later, by his son, Jared Musk. 

• June 5, 2028: Blue Origin launches New Glenn 8, arriving 2 weeks later, thanks to hypersonic engines.

• July 1, 2028: Jeff Bezos retakes Blue Origin. Meanwhile, the Russo- Iranian terrorist group 2*12 takes over the UN headquarters in NYC, killing 1,890 representatives.

• October 11, 2028: The Virgin Hyperloop Mars Project is started on the Rubin Plain.
  

• December 25, 2028: The first official mission to Olympus Mons. The mission takes 2 months to climb the mountain. The climber, Max Cameron, collects lava soil samples. 

• December 31, 2028: The first New Years Eve is celebrated on Mars in Mars Base Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon.

2029: A turning point

Arrivals: 27,300

Departures: 22

• January 2, 2029: A sixth colony dome is completed, along with a solar array and a rover garage and three underground sublevels. 

• January 9. 2029: The window between Mars and Earth opens. Therefore, eighteen thousand families settle in Mars Base Delta . This is called “The Great Crossing.”

• February 10, 2029: The new M160 Blue Origin BSL-4 positive space suit comes out. It has a bigger air supply, lasting for  678 hours, and a built-in intercom.

• March 11, 2029: The dubbed “Mars Craze” starts.

• March 22, 2029: Olympus Mons erupts, spilling 8,000,000 gallons of lava down its slopes and destroys Magellan Colony and kills 300 colonists.

• April 2, 2029: The New UN is created with a new branch: The International Space Exploration and Interplanetary Research program (ISEIRP).

• April 11, 2029: The first ISEIRP unmanned satellite to Phobos launches from Papua New Guinea Spaceport. 

• May 3, 2029: The one millionth person on Mars is announced. 3,900 colonies spring up around Mars.

• May 9, 2029: The first TV series on Mars is filmed: Mars: Life on the Red Planet.

• May 28, 2029: Quasar International Aeronautics and Space Corporation launches Tiangong Station; a collaboration between the countries Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Russia. 

• June 4, 2029: Mars: Life on the Red Planet launches a new season, about the great Olympus Mons challenge.

• June 6, 2029: The Very Large International Satellite Telescope in China opens, beaming Level 3 Neural QuantX Images, data overlays and deep-space infrared images to the moon and Mars. It will operate for over 40 years. 

• July 4, 2029: The first aquaponic farm is used in Mars Base Theta. It will operate for 20 years.

• August 11,  2029: The astronaut training Al, Second Mind goes rogue. Scientists still haven’t named the virus that caused its glitch.

• September 1, 2029: StarLink UltraMars goes online and consists of six weather, internet, solar, and power satellites.

• September 31, 2029: A resupply of colonist families, Food, Solar Panels, Cyanobacteria, Rovers, and Plaster lands.

• November 2, 2029: Oxygen shorts out at Colony Alpha, great loss of life.

2030: Expanding, exploring, reconnaissance

Arrivals: 87,370

Departures: 122

• January 2, 2030: THERPA, the first Nuclear Fusion Factory on Mars is completed at 0017 hours. 

• January 9, 2030: Orbital Satellites called Starweb are installed by Blue Origin, a shipping company.

• January 17, 2030: Mars-Earth Reconnaissance Habitat is built on the Musk Plain, 300,000 km (18,6411.358 miles), away from the Colonies. It tests astronauts at growing plants in space, and doing tasks around Mars.

• January 28. 2030: The Very Large Mars-Earth Array, (VLMEA), starts construction on the Virgin Plain, beaming pictures of Mars to satellites, the Moon colony, and Earth.

• February 1, 2030: Courage, a NASA Rover is sent to collect Cyanobacterial Ice. 

• February 3,2030:: The first baby is born on Mars. Its DNA is analyzed in the Genetic Nanomaterial Opic Lab. (GNMOP).

•  February 6, 2030: WeatherSAT 9 is launched on a Falcon Heavy Rocket to the orbit of Mars to monitor the weather of Mars including Dust Storms, temperature, and wind speed.

• February 12, 2030: Ares 6 lands on Mars after 780 Mars Sols.

• February 16, 2030: The Mars Exploration Rover is built in a Tesla-Chevrolet Gigafactory.

• February 23, 2030: A rotating Space Station Hotel is opened in Low-Mars Orbit. It has experimental Artificial Gravity created by the manipulation of Gravity created by the rotating ring and has a 5-Star restaurant. 

• March 8, 2030:Ice sample drill bits reach liquid iron in the mantle of Mars and remove the sample to be analyzed at the Colony Alpha Lab (CAL). 

• March 11, 2030: Kendra Shepherd is the first Astronaut to stay in the low-Oxygen environment in a tent. 

• April 2, 2030: Mars Base Omega is built. It is the largest Mars Colonization Dome, (MCD), in Colonization history, it houses 589,913,111 Colonists and is 890,568,121 square feet in area. It has a Mars Rover Garage and Greenhouse.

• April 10, 2030: Seven rockets are launched by JAXA, (Japan Aeronautics and Space Exploration Agency,) to put Internet Satellites into Martian orbit

• April 28, 2030: Resilience, the 8th Mars Exploration Rover blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in a Atlas IVX rocket.

2031: Exploring the plains of Mars

Arrivals: 191,864

Departures: 11,400

• January 2, 2031: Honda releases a Prototype Olympus Mons Exploration Rover, or POMER.

• January 7, 2031: POMER ascents Olympus Mons with 5 astronaut drivers. They reach the summit two days later and raise the NASA, ESA, and JAXA flag.

• January 11, 2031: Mars Base Pi is built. It is the first that has a “green” roof.

• January 19, 2031:  The POMER goes public.

• February 1, 2031: An asteroid destroys a Tesla GigaFactory, killing 348,000 people.

• February 4, 2031: A Satellite supposedly spots three alien transporter ships which are actually stars.

• February 8, 2031: The James Webb Space Telescope aka JWST finds eighteen new exoplanets in the Gulanko Nebula that may host..extraterrestrial life. 

• February 13, 2031: Elon Musk invests in a new business venture called Musk Mars Solar Energy Industries 

• February 23, 2031: Interplanet I is finished. It is the first interplanetary asphalt highway. POMER’s ride on it.

• March 4, 2031: The Neil Armstrong mission launches a 4D Printed rocket to Phobos with 200 colonists, 123 dogs and 60 cats to establish Phobos100, a program to Colonize Phobos.

• March 11, 2031: A Hyperloop with 57,000 Biologists, Geologists, Botanists, Bioengineers, and Hydrologists to study the 132,789-foot crevasse leading to Mars’s core. They stay there for 900 Sols.

• March 31, 2031: Caring, the ninth Rover on Mars is the first Rover to cross the Planets circumference, 13,263 miles around the red planet. It had collected 678,123,000 soil samples, 109,000,000 ice samples and took 30,000 audio records and 345,000,000,000 Photos

• April 3, 2031: The Olympus Mons Resort & Spa opens with a Water Park called Mission To Mars

• April 5, 2031: Zeus, a line of Gen-Z rockets land on Mars with 191,000 Colonists and 666,754,000 seedlings landed at Mars Spaceport Beta and Iron Works. (MSPBEAIW).

• April 22, 2031: The first Seed Vault opens its doors. The 666,000,000 Potato, Kale, Eggplant, Carrot, Cucumber, Zucchini, and Onions are grown in a sterile environment. The Mars Sustainability Seed Vault worked for 66 years. (MASSEEV, nicknamed “The Massive”,)

• June 11, 2031:The first lake has formed. Genetically engineered fish and octopuses thrive in the lake. Marine Geneticists carefully monitor the vital signs of the Modified fish.

• June 31, 2031: A Parahelic Opposition between Mars and Earth means that passengers and cargo can travel between the planets in 2 weeks. The superalignment lasts 9 months. 191,000 people move to Mars.

• July 2, 2031: It is a time where rockets have no heat shield, landing gear, or heat resistance. SpacePlanes like SpaceShipThree, the 100th XPrixe winner, take humans and cargo to the surface of Mars from Orbit.

• July 4, 2031: American colonists celebrate Independence Day from all 15 Colonies. 

• July 11, 2031: Nine Gagarin-class rockets are launched from Vladivostok, Russia bound for Mars with 13,000 Astronauts and Cosmonauts fresh from the University of Russia, Vladivostok Space Technology Labs. (UVADSTL).

• July 22, 2029: Richard Branson launches a Virgin Galactic Space Plane to Mars. 

• August 1, 2031: Voyager loses contact with Mars Mission Control.

• August 3, 2031: A space elevator starts construction on a giant generation ship in low orbit of Phobos. 

• August 11, 2031: The first Mars-grown chicken is served in a bar at Olympus Mons Resort & Spa. 

• August 29, 2031: Mars1000 Exposition, a Interplanetary fair with exhibit displaying life on Mars opens, with 339,000,000 visitors coming to see Mars’s most spectacular work. 

• September 8, 2031: The Luna Colony sends eight Starships to Mars restocking the MASEEV and sending more Astronauts to help with a new project: the MarsElevator project. 

• September 14, 2031: A large drill, the Mars Mining Drill Rover, drills 34.990 miles into the crust of Mars 

• September 31, 2031: The MTSS, (Mars Training Space Station,) is built to train astronauts to acclimate to the rigors of the trip to Mars.

• November 31, 2031: The Mars Transit Elevator is operational. 

2032: The Colony Grows Bigger and Stronger                                                                                 

Departures: 450

Arrivals: 12,968

• January 3, 2032: The first Minisatellite from the Starshot Alpha Centauri Program reaches its destination: Alpha Centauri B. In the next seventeen years, the rest of the mini satellites reach Alpha Centauri B at different speeds. 

• January 6, 2032: The Mars Rapid Transit System goes online, with sixteen Hyperloop trains running from Mars Colony Alpha to beta. Six months later, it would expand to Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. 

• January 11, 2032: AzurCore, a mining company, builds the Allon Heavy Mining Drilling Rig. It finds Zinc Oxide and frozen water in the Martian soil. 

• February 2: Boeing makes its giant debut in sending the Starliner Venture I rocket to Mars with 997 astronauts aboard the sixteen engined spacecraft. 

• February 10, 2032: Hironuma Nagawasakinoma, the Onagasa Capital Air & Space Engineering director announces the seventh launching of Oni 4, the fourth-generation Japanese spacecraft. 

• March 3, 2030: The space probe Geilese is launched from Mars Base Alpha. Five years later, it skycranes a submarine, Yariin, into the ocean on Europa.

• March 8, 2032: Eukaryotic life is finally found on Phobos! Scientists extract massive amounts of the material they are found in. Then, they are studied in the Eukaryotic Life Laboratory. (ELILAR.)

• March 12, 2032: InterCore Conglomerate Trade Corporation lands a Gen-Alpha+ rocket on Mars, mining for a material called Sigthöneeth, an important fiber for building colony domes. 

• April 4, 2032: The Underground Rover Tunnel Project is completed. Honda, Ford, Tesla, Rivian, and Chevrolet Rovers can cross over 409 miles underground from Territias Valles to Mars Dune Habitat.