In recent years, as technology has improved, ideas about the colonization of Mars have been thrown around. They all seem very far-fetched and much too far in the future for us to picture now. But the space industry has advanced to a critical inflection point. Many companies are leading a new age in the space economy. These companies are not fighting to simply get to Mars first, they are fighting over the viable economy that is being created in space. So what do those companies look like? What problems are they solving? How will they alter the future?