{"id":184533,"date":"2015-02-17T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/100-people-still-in-the-running-for-a-one-way-trip-to-mars.php"},"modified":"2015-02-17T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:02:28","slug":"100-people-still-in-the-running-for-a-one-way-trip-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mars-colonization\/100-people-still-in-the-running-for-a-one-way-trip-to-mars.php","title":{"rendered":"100 people still in the running for a one-way trip to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>  Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp holds a press conference in New York to  announce the launch of astronaut selection for a Mars space  mission project, April 22, 2013. EMMANUEL DUNAND\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>    One hundred people are still in the running to become    humanity's first Mars explorers.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Netherlands-based nonprofit     Mars One, which aims to land four pioneers on the Red    Planet in 2025 as the vanguard of a permanent colony, has    whittled its pool of astronaut candidates down to 100,    organization representatives announced Monday, Feb. 16.  <\/p>\n<p>    More than 202,000 people applied to become Red Planet explorers    after Mars One opened the selection process in April 2013. The    latest cut came after Mars One medical director Norbert Kraft    interviewed the 660 candidates who had survived several    previous rounds of culling. [Images    of Mars One's Red Planet Colony Project]  <\/p>\n<p>      Play Video    <\/p>\n<p>      The Mars One program says it will send a colonizing team to      the Red Planet in 2024. Kera Rennert talks with two astronaut      hopefuls about the one-...    <\/p>\n<p>    \"The large cut in candidates is an important step towards    finding out who has the right stuff to go to Mars,\" Mars One    co-founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp     said in a statement. \"These aspiring Martians provide the    world with a glimpse into who the modern day explorers will    be.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    The remaining pool consists of 50 men and 50 women who range in    age from 19 to 60, Mars One representatives said. Thirty-nine    come from the Americas (including 33 from the United States),    31 from Europe, 16 from Asia, seven from Africa and seven from    Australia.  <\/p>\n<p>    The remaining candidates will next participate in group    challenges, to demonstrate their ability and willingness to    deal with the rigors of     Mars life. After another round of cuts, the finalists will    be divided into four-person teams, which will train in a    simulated Red Planet outpost.  <\/p>\n<p>    Eventually, Mars One intends to select 24 astronauts (six    four-person teams), who will become full-time employees of the    organization and prepare for the Mars colonization mission.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/100-people-still-in-the-running-for-a-one-way-trip-to-mars\" title=\"100 people still in the running for a one-way trip to Mars\">100 people still in the running for a one-way trip to Mars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp holds a press conference in New York to announce the launch of astronaut selection for a Mars space mission project, April 22, 2013.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mars-colonization\/100-people-still-in-the-running-for-a-one-way-trip-to-mars.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[261466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars-colonization"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}