Mars Society needs a financial facelift

Paperwork filed by the Mars Society with the IRS over the past few years indicates that the financial color of the Colorado-based nonprofit is in danger of turning red. Under the longtime stewardship of its founder and president, rocket scientist and SF author Dr. Robert Zubrin, the Mars Society has burned through more than $2 million in the last seven fiscal years, recording an operating deficit in every year from FY 2002/2003 to FY 2008/2009. What has that done to the trajectory of net assets? Here’s the graph!