美国先锋宇航公司总裁罗伯特·朱布林1996年写了一本名叫“火星状况”的书,阐述了他关于火星探险的思想.1998年夏天,在答复数千封支持信件及电子邮件时,他说明了下一步应当采取的步骤,并立即付诸行动,在科罗拉多大学博尔德校园内举行的会议上成立了火星社. Robert Jublin, president of Pioneer Aerospace, a book written in 1996 entitled “The State of Mars,” expounded his thinking on Mars exploration. In the summer of 1998, in reply to thousands of supporting letters and e-mails, Described the steps to be taken in the next step and put it into immediate effect and established a Mars Agency at a meeting held at the University of Colorado at Boulder.