Project Mars Film Competition Grand Prize LEGO: Dreaming of Mars A film by: Wiliam Thomason, Austin, Texas, United States NASA is building a plan for Americans to orbit the Moon, land astronauts on the surface, and establish a lunar orbiting platform to host astronauts farther from Earth than ever before. The work NASA will do on the Moon in the coming years will serve as a critical precursor to an eventual series of crewed missions to Mars.