The focus of The Mars Generation is building a stronger tomorrow by energizing our youth today about space and STEM and educating kids and adults about the importance of deep space exploration to humankind. The Mars Generation will serve as a catalyst to identify students interested in STEM and nurture their study in STEM education.

The Mars Generation is volunteer-driven, with executive and advisory boards of leaders from the space industry and nonprofit, education, and business sectors. Collaborating with many other space and STEM organizations, The Mars Generation reaches a broad audience, creating a groundswell of support for space exploration and compelling funding of space exploration, benefitting the future of the Mars generation.

The Apollo era inspired generations to dream big and act big. The Shuttle era allowed us to build a massive, world-class research laboratory in orbit and maintain a constant human presence in space. Now, we have a new era in human space exploration ready to inspire today’s youth to venture further than ever before. Human space exploration has and will continue to inspire scientists, engineers, policymakers, artists, and writers to change our lives on Earth. The Mars Generation will renew the importance of and the investment in space exploration to help move us toward the next primary goal in space travel: Mars.