There's an old joke about sending someone you hate on a one-way trip to Mars. Now, a Dutch entrepreneur has formed a company around this concept - and it's no joke. Bas Lansdorp, the 35-year-old founder of Mars One, says his company is serious about a one-way mission. The company will hold a worldwide lottery next year to select 40 people for a training team. They will then set up a mock colony in the desert, possibly somewhere in the U.S., for three months. This initial team will be reduced to ten crew members.
They will then be sent to Mars, never again to return. Lansdorp says: We will send humans to Mars in 2023. They will live there for the rest of their lives. There will be a habitat waiting for them, and we'll start sending four people every two years.
(via Bits & Pieces)
Official Mars One website.
1 comment(s):
Please, please let this be real and not a hoax.
I'm entirely the wrong stuff to send to the red planet, but I envy those who will live there. I'd go to Mars in a heartbeat, no questions asked.
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