One Way Trip To Mars!

Bas Lansdorp is a Dutch entrepreneur who is convincing people to take a one-way trip to Mars! What’s more thousands of people from around the world have actually agreed to go. Would you leave Earth to go live on a self sustaining colony in space knowing that no matter what you did you could never ever return home?

While NASA with the blessing of President Obama decided that they would consider landing man on Mars by mid 2030, but only if they could be brought back home safely, the project got delayed due to budget cuts. That is when Bas Lansdorp decided that if governments were too picky it was time for private enterprise to take over the colonization of Mars.

Since April 2013 Lansdorp’s team at Mars One has been screening the resumes of people who want to be a part of the trip from countries across the globe. The first phase of this exercise ended in December 2013 when they narrowed down the hopefuls to 1058 people. It may seem quixotic to you and me, but these people are all set to blast off and never look back.

So far the science project is no where near ready to launch people off the Mars but it makes for interesting news and does seem entertaining to the more Earth bound people. Will it ever succeed? Only time and Bas Lansdorp can tell.