About a thousand people went to the next round of applications for ... - The Associated Press

There are about 1000 people worldwide who are nearest to travel to Mars. The Mars One wants to take the first group of humans to the Red Planet since 2025. To do this, open nominations for all to join in the adventure. A large part of the 200 000 initial candidates is out, only been to the second round in 1058 people, announced this week the organizers of the mission.

The initial candidates had to send the video where they explained why they wanted to join the mission. “The challenge of choosing between 200 thousand subscribers is to separate those who think they are mentally and physically capable of becoming ambassadors of human Mars mission that lead to those less seriously,” said a statement Bas Lansdorp, who is co-Dutch founder and executive director of the mission.
The Mars One project, to be held, will also be a TV show. Bas Lansdorp hopes to get funding for the mission, selling it as a r eality show. The aim is that the lives of Earthlings colonists on Mars is filmed and broadcast by TV channels worldwide. The Dutchman claims that the technology needed to achieve the mission is already developed or nearly developed.

organizers will continue the next phase of selection of candidates. The 24 potential settlers arriving at more advanced stages of selection will be divided into six groups of four. Participants will have to perform physical, medical and psychological tests. The groups will also participate in simulations where they will be tested the physical and emotional capabilities. In the end, it is planned to send four people in 2023, which will arrive at Mars two years later.

In December 2013, the company signed a $ 250,000 (about 183,000 euros) to the division of the American company Lockheed Martin Space System, to study a system of landing on Mars. The machine will need to be sent to Mars in 2018.

For now, the only success stories of a landing on Mars robots are sent by NASA, the last was the Curiosity , which reached the Red Planet in 2012. However, the United States aim to send astronauts to the planet in the next 20 years.

Besides the aim of achieving raise 6000 million (EUR 4400 million) needed for the mission, the Mars One organizers expect to get from private funding, there are several future obstacles. Besides being one-way mission, astronauts will have to live in small cubicles, and to survive, are forced to seek water, to produce its own food and oxygen. These difficulties will be more complicated on a planet like Mars, which is a great desert, has an average temperature of 63 degrees Celsius, and a thin atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide.