The Mars Initiative

The Mars Initiative (TMI), led by Mina Mukhar, is a publicly funded international non-profit organization focused on space advocacy, space exploration, and the promotion of a human mission to Mars including exploration of Mars and the colonization of Mars.

TMI seeks to be a primary source of funding for the first entity responsible for successfully launching the first human mission to Mars to develop the first human settlement on the planet Mars.

The organization aims to propel private spaceflight into development quickly by incentivizing , spacecraft manufacturers, and other private enterprises to collaborate and focus on the delivery of a comprehensive human mission to Mars by offering them a generous subsidy for reaching all stated objectives.

Collaboration

The Mars Initiative has established ties with the following Space Advocacy Organizations:

• - Led by , Executive Director.

• - Led by , Chief Executive.

Both Bruce Mackenzie and Frank Stratford sit on the Board of Directors of The Mars Initiative (TMI)

Transparency

The Mars Initiative has claims to be "transparent in everything they do":

"[We] hold a strong value of transparency in everything [we] do. As such, TMI [has] made a commitment to publishing the organization’s monthly bank statements (all but the last 4 digits of the account number has been redacted for security). "

The Mars Initiative (TMI) publishes their redacted bank statements at the following URL: .

See also

• Space Advocacy
• Space Colonization
• Colonization of Mars