Have you ever thought of visiting another planet like Mars? Would you take an offer for a one-way trip ? Well, the Mars One program...
Have you ever thought of visiting another planet like Mars? Would you take an offer for a one-way trip?
Well, the Mars One program hopes to send crews of four people to Mars starting in 2024. In fact, they were planning to make a reality TV show of the selection process. Since the announcement of the program in 2013, more than 200,000 people have applied to go to Mars, permanently.
Mars One initially estimated a one-way trip, excluding the cost of maintaining four astronauts on Mars until they die at $6 billion! Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp has declined questions regarding the cost estimate because he believes "it would be very stupid for us to give the prices that have been quoted per component". For comparison, an "austere" manned Mars mission (including a temporary stay followed by a return of the astronauts) proposed by NASA in 2009 had a projected cost of $100 billion USD after an 18-year program, including a NASA-required return component.
Medically cleared candidates were interviewed, and 50 men and 50 women from the total pool of 660 from around the world were selected to move on to the third round of the astronaut selection process.
Medically cleared candidates were interviewed, and 50 men and 50 women from the total pool of 660 from around the world were selected to move on to the third round of the astronaut selection process.
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