The MoonMars Workshop (MMW) was a recommendation from the Space Generation Summit (SGS) held at the World Space Congress in Houston in 2002. The Space Exploration workgroups from SGS decided that it is very important to look at current Moon and Mars exploration plans and to highlight their commonalities--to show how developments for one benefits the other. A single roadmap is needed for MoonMars exploration, and this should accelerate our pace in exploration and colonisation of our near solar system.

The First MoonMars Workshop was held over the weekend of September 26-28, 2003 in Bremen, Germany, in conjunction and co-located with the Third European Mars Society Conference (EMC3). MMW-Bremen was comprised of 16 delegates and 6 experts. The resulting papers are now available online, as well as the presentations given at EMC3 and the IAC conference.

The Second MoonMars Workshop was held from October 1-8, 2004 in Vancouver, Canada. Details of this event can be viewed at the separate website created for this event.

All MoonMars events are facilitated by the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications - the body through which students' and young professionals' views are brought to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS).