Once thought to live on Mars for the rest of your life? If yes, the Mars Project One can give you that desire, from the year 2023.
The mission objective is to send a crew of four astronauts, chosen from among 40 possible candidates, "who feel the challenge." Anyone can apply and the selection process will begin next year.
The four lucky winners will all live together in a simulated habitat at one of the arid plains of the Red Planet.
The experience of living on Mars will be the same as living in the International Space Station (ISS), but with less insulation.
The Mars Project One is already planned and adequately detailed, and will follow a chronological order:
- In 2016, it will be sent to the first supply unit (it will take 5,500 kg of food) and a communications vehicle. These will make interplanetary travel in less than 10 months.
- In 2018, will be sent a large robotic vehicle (Rover) to explore and identify the best possible area to establish a colony in its long journey.
- In 2020, the two units will be sent to live, two units of life support, plus a supply unit and a second Rover.Together, the two rovers will build and prepare the habitat for the arrival of the crew in 2023.
The crew will leave the Earth in September 2022 and will reach Mars in April 2023, where they remain the rest of their lives, or at least that is provided.
This is an ambitious project, which requires a huge financial esfoço and collaboration of several aerospace companies worldwide.
Bas Lansdorp, the mind behind the Mars Project One, believes that this will be the "biggest event ever medium" and it will help in funding.
"The project has received support from Paul Romer, co-founder and executive producer of the program Big Brother."
Everyone on Earth will have the opportunity to directly assist in the preparation of the project.
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