The Mars Scene: About Mars One

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If all goes according to plan, in roughly 10 years Peter Degen-Portnoy, 51, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, will land on Mars. He'll leave behind his wife and five children, and never return home. "It is the most difficult transition I can imagine. My In its highly publicized search to find people for a private manned mission to the Red Planet, Mars One has winnowed down its applicant pool of 200,000 to 1,058 candidates — all of whom are serious about living out out the rest of their lives on another Nothing is for free and that’s for certain. So if Mars One program asks monetary considerations from its candidates it’s not a bad or dishonest proposition. Money moves each candidates up in the ladder. One way of doing it is to buy Mars One In 2013, the world started dreaming big about travel to Mars when Mars One revealed its own big plan: to send people on a one-way trip to the red planet, something that horrified some and inspired others. The non-profit organization had a sensationalist But Earnshaw admits she’s attracted by the gender balance of the Mars One mission, which plans to send crews Maggie Lieu But Earnshaw laughs off the suggestion that the crew is simply “going to Mars to have babies”, assuring me that “there But Mars is humanity’s inevitable destination, and Mars One has accepted the challenge to take that next great leap. Now it’s up to us to live up to the adventure. Read next: Astronauts Vying for One-Way Ticket to Mars May Be on Reality TV .

Sgt. Carmen Paul and Navy Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Oscar Mathews, a 2004 Air Force Academy grad, are among the 100 hopefuls who made the latest cut for Mars One, a privately funded enterprise that hopes to land a four-person team on the red planet in 2025. (NASA ) Earth and Mars shown for a shot to colonize Mars and then struggle to survive in an inhospitable alien world, right? Well, it's not a good sign that no media corporation has purchased the exclusive broadcast rights that Mars One offered on A one-way ticket to Mars and a chance to be the first human colonists on the red planet: Mars One's ambitious mission led to more than 200,000 applicants to be among the crew sent to Mars in 2025. Candidates have been whittled down to 100, but there are It sounds like a tale from pulp science fiction: volunteers signing up to take a one-way trip to another planet. But that's just what's in the works in the Mars One program. The Netherlands-based non-profit organization plans to send four people to the Red .