Posted on 08/11/2013 8:10:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than 100,000 people around the world have applied to be the first to make a one-way trip to Mars, according to organisers of a prospective mission.
The private Dutch-based Mars One project is proposing to select a group of 40 would-be civilian astronauts this year, aiming to send four of them on a no-return journey to to the red planet in 2022.
Experts have questioned both the financial and practical viability of the mission, but that hasn't stopped people signing up in droves, including 30,000 Americans, CNN reported.
The estimated cost for the initial mission is $6 billion (£3.87 billion) which Mars One hopes to raise through sponsors and selling broadcasting rights to media companies, including a reality show of the colonisation project.
It hopes to send a second group of four people to Mars a few years after the first. None of them will return to Earth. Before leaving the astronauts would train for eight years, learning medical and survival skills.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“All the Nam guys are a little long in the tooth by now, she’s probably safe from them.”
I always figured one of the Nam guys that got “Agent Oranged” would have gone out in a blaze of patriotism.
Dyke Fonda: Maybe she’s friends with Bill de Blasio’s “wife”?
That would be a good chohice for Palentinian homeland. If they’re not interested, maybe we can send illegal aliens there.
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