Organizations Filed Purposes:
To educate the public about the planet Mars and promote the scientific exploration and settlement of the planet by the United States, other countries, and private entities. By doing so to encourage young people to study science, technology, engineering and math.
Humans to Mars Summit: Explore Mars holds an annual conference called the Humans to Mars Summit (H2M). The conference brings together the top technical, scientific, government and academic experts working to develop the technologies and policies that will enable human missions to Mars to be implemented. Recently the conference has been expanded to include STEM programming for middle school and high school students. The conference is open to the general public and is webcast simultaneously to hundreds of middle school and high school classrooms around the country. H2M is funded through corporate sponsorships, a grant from NASA and individual registration fees.
Affording Mars is a program of ongoing workshops utilizing a global working group of more than sixty leaders from more than thirty government, industry and academic organizations. The goal of this initiative is to build stakeholder consensus on what is necessary to make human Mars exploration feasible, sustainable, and affordable within two decades. The first AM workshop was held in December of 2013 and there has been at least one annual meeting of the group since then. Approximately 60 professionals from the industrial and commercial sectors, academia, and NASA, along with European colleagues, participate in the workshop. These individuals were chosen to be representative of the breadth of interests in astronaut and robotic Mars exploration. The output of each annual workshop is a report that consists of observations, findings, and recommendations intended to inform space agency leadership and national policy makers.
Explore Mars has published an annual Humans to Mars Report (H2MR) since 2015. The report contains an annual summary of progress made and challenges to be overcome in attaining our goal of sending humans to Mars and establishing a permanent presence there. The H2MR provides updates on challenges, plus progress in areas such as mission architecture design and development, scientific discoveries, policy, public perception, international cooperation and competition, and new private capabilities. In addition to the printed report, Explore Mars maintains the H2MR website that archives support materials used to produce the printed report. The site serves as a valuable resource for interested parties and members of the public. Each annual report is presented at the annual H2M Summit. Each year, the report is distributed to all members of Congress, industry leaders, space policy experts, NASA officials and members of the interested public. Explore Mars doesn't charge for the publication and a copy is available on the Explore Mars web site.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Christopher Carberry | Chief Executive Officer | 40 | $89,082 |
| Debbie L Cohen | Director of Finance and Operations | 10 | $0 |
| Richard Zucker | Clerk | 10 | $0 |
| Michael Raftery | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Gary C Fisher | Director and Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Richard J Phillips Jr | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Robert Joseph Cassady | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Artemis Westenberg | President | 17 | $0 |
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