March 27 (UPI) -- Mars One is a a private, Netherlands-based push to realize a human colony on the red planet by 2025. <\/p>\n
In an email statement to Popular Science Thursday, Mars One announced plans to build a simulated colony here on Earth to vet astronauts and make sure they can withstand the cramped and isolated conditions colonists will have to endure before awarding them their one-way ticket. <\/p>\n
They are currently in the process of courting financial sponsors and construction companies, and while the simulated Martian digs wont actually boast extraterrestrial life-support right off the bat, the company intends to retrofit the technology to the structure down the line. <\/p>\n
More than 200,00 people applied for the chance to be among the first colonists. Mars One has already narrowed the pool to just over a thousand candidates, and intends ultimately to send a cadre of 24-40 colonists to the planet. <\/p>\n
According to Popular Science, spaceflight contractors Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. are already working with Mars One to develop a robotic lander and a data-link satellite for an unmanned, exploratory mission to Mars in 2018. <\/p>\n
Mars One has said in the past that they intend to televise the colonization as a means of funding. <\/p>\n
So whos ready for Big Brother: Martian Edition? That will be reality television worth watching. <\/p>\n
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Originally posted here: March 27 (UPI) -- Mars One is a a private, Netherlands-based push to realize a human colony on the red planet by 2025. In an email statement to Popular Science Thursday, Mars One announced plans to build a simulated colony here on Earth to vet astronauts and make sure they can withstand the cramped and isolated conditions colonists will have to endure before awarding them their one-way ticket. Continue reading
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