The Race to Mars

"their was a point when both our ship and the mars one ship were in space at the same time."~

the race to mars refers to the race in the last half of the 2010 between SpaceX and mars one to land on mars.

Mars One
the original mars one mission was to land on mars by 2022 but it fell back twice (for 2 years each time) in late 2016 before the landing was made possible in 2017 by the intervention of the government of the Netherlands.

SpaceX
the original SpaceX mission was land to land on mars in 2024 but that was a much more streched time table and so the best they managed even with US governmental help was 2024

China
Chinese involvement was a surprise. they had a mission planed for 2040's but in late 2018 a raiding team emerged from a sub and stole a nuclear rocket engine which had been languishing in a where-house in the USA. by 2019 using skylon space plane technology they had assembled a full blown nuclear rocket in orbit around earth, much to the US's concern. in late 2019 they launched the rocket and on the 24th of December 2019 human boots set foot upon the mansion surface.