Ares Program (Un Futuro)

The Ares Program is a NASA program, focused on Martian activity.

History

 * August 2024: Ares 1 reaches Mars, seeing a crew of robots set to dig out and construct a Mars base land on the planet.
 * January 2025: Digging for NASA's Mars base finishes, two weeks off track, which also made it two weeks late for the installion of the first habitation module. However, NASA scientists were able to save the module by moving it into higher orbit in accordence with the robot's projected time frame for completion of the digging. The goal of the Ares 2 mission is finally started.
 * April 2025: The Ares 3 mission reaches Mars, delivering a second habitation module.
 * September 2025: The first manned flyby of Mars is achieved by the Ares 4 mission, the mission also drops off a to the Mars base.
 * December 2025: The Ares 5 mission reaches Mars, delivering an airlock.
 * March 2026: The Ares 6 mission reaches Mars, delivering COLA (Constructing Oxygen in situ resource utiLization Apparatus ), an oxygen generator and an upgraded version of MOXIE (which was used in NASA's Vitality (Mars2020) rover), being around 63 square feet in size.
 * July 2026: The Ares 7 mission reaches Mars, delivering a greenhouse and small seed bank.
 * October 2026: The construction of the initial area of NASA's Mars Underground Base (MUD) is finished, in preparation for its first crew.
 * December 2026: The United States achieves the first manned landing on Mars, with the Ares 8 mission. This crew of five would also be the first to reside on Mars, living in MUD, and would install solar panels and a generator (which came along with the mission) to provide electricity for the base.
 * January 2027: Days after the first crew of MUD reaches the base, the Ares 9 mission reaches Mars, coming with communication equipment.