The Mars-One Project
Mars One is a project launched by a Dutch engineer Bas Lansdorp, to install a human colony on Mars and care from 2024.
The idea of the project's founders is a manned space mission to Mars, the proposed project but steadily pushed back by NASA for reasons of cost and technical feasibility, is achievable today at relatively moderate cost (6 billion US dollars for the first phase 1) using existing techniques and components already developed in particular by SpaceX company.
A special feature of the project is that it is expected to be funded through a media exploitation of the expedition, on the model of reality TV.
In 2013 it was the launch of the volunteer recruitment campaign, campaign attracted 202,586 applicants.
In 2015 it launched the third stage of the recruitment phase of the candidates 100 candidates are still in the running.
July 6 final of 4 teams (2 women and 2 men) will be defined.
Finally in 2023 the modules of the spacecraft that will take astronauts to Mars will gradually be launched into orbit and assembled. In September the spaceship leave Earth with four people on board.
