The Mars Millennium Project is a national science, arts and technology inititative. Join thousands of kids in community groups and K-12 classrooms and imagine a community on Mars in the year 2030.

The Mars Millennium Project is a national science, arts and technology inititative. Join thousands of kids in community groups and K-12 classrooms and imagine a community on Mars in the year 2030.

The countdown to a new century provides a unique opportunity to engage America's youth in charting a course for the future. The Mars Millennium Project, an official White House Millennium Council Youth Initiative, challenges students across the nation to design a community yet to be imagined - for the planet Mars.

This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the problems and possibilities inherent in a projected expedition to Mars. Today von Braun is recognized as the person most responsible for laying the groundwork for public acceptance of America's space program. When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.