Mars One, a group that plans to
send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, has announced its final 100 candidates.
They have been selected from 200,000 applicants and
will go on to further testing later this year, which they expect to include
team-building exercises and later, isolation.
Eventually, 24 will be selected to
make up six crews of four, which Mars One says they hope to
launch to the Red Planet every two years from 2024, with the aim of starting a
colony there.
The Dutch non-profit hopes to use
existing technology to carry out the mission. However, the planet has always
been a difficult target for exploration, with only around half of all unmanned
missions succeeding. The journey itself is expected to take around seven
months, and a recent MIT study found
that, should the first explorers succeed in landing, using current technology
they would likely survive just 68 days.
So what
kind of person chooses to go to Mars on a one-way mission? The list of 100
finalists includes scientists and academics as well as those who are just
seeking the ultimate adventure. We spoke to two of the British hopefuls
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