Video Caption: Desi Lydic meets with a Mars One candidate and the company’s CEO to investigate whether or not the initiative was ever anything more than an elaborate marketing scam.
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Elmo Keep talks to Dr. Joseph Roche, an Irish professor who is one of the 100 finalists shortlisted for the first Mars One mission to the Red Planet. Roche paints a rather dismal picture of the venture, which hopes to being colonizing Mars in the mid-2020’s. The article’s summary is devastating: So, here are the facts as we understand them: Mars One has almost no money. Mars One has no contracts […]
Video Caption: Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp is joined by UK Mars One Candidates Ryan MacDonald and Maggie Leiu to discuss the Mars One mission of BBC World news following the announcement of the final 100 Mars One astronaut candidates.
Mars colony (Credit: Mars One)
Even as Mars One announced 100 finalists for its plan to colonize the red planet, things were beginning to go wrong behind the scenes, with a television production deal falling through and doubts about whether a pair of precursor missions would take place. The $6 billion has come under criticism for being unrealistic, with one expert suggesting it might be a fraud.
The most recent piece of bad news relates to a planned television program.
The venture’s accompanying reality TV show – which was to be made by the makers of Big Brother to document their training and new lives on the red planet – has been shelved after the companies were ‘unable to reach an agreement on details’, MailOnline has learned….
Instead, Mars One is working with a new production company to record the colonists’ progress.
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Mars colony (Credit: Mars One)
Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 16 February 2015 (Mars One PR) — From the initial 202,586 applicants, only 100 hopefuls have been selected to proceed to the next round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Process. These candidates are one step closer to becoming the first humans on Mars.
“The large cut in candidates is an important step towards finding out who has the right stuff to go to Mars,” said Bas Lansdorp, Co-founder & CEO of Mars One. “These aspiring martians provide the world with a glimpse into who the modern day explorers will be.”
Full-scale Lynx mockup (Credit: XCOR)
Amersfoort, The Netherlands, Sept. 4, 2014 (Mars One PR) – Today Mars One announces their Ticket To Rise campaign (https://urgencynetwork.com/marsone) to give space-enthusiasts a chance to win a private trip to space. Participants earn entries into the space trip drawing in exchange for joining the campaign.
Mars colony (Credit: Mars One)
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands (Mars One PR) – Mars One is excited to announce the launch of Mars Exchange, an interactive component of the Mars One Community Platform. The first article is an interview with Mason Peck, PhD, who is a professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, NASA’s former Chief Technologist and a Mars One adviser.
“Mars Exchange will foster a worldwide dialogue and encourage thought provoking conversations on the subject of the human permanence on Mars” commented Bas Lansdorp, Co-founder and CEO of Mars One. “Mars One advisers, NASA scientists, Mars One team members, and even a Nobel Prize winner will contribute.”
Mars One 2018 lander (Credit: Mars One)
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands, June 30, 2014 (Mars One PR) – Mars One is extending a formal invitation to universities, research bodies, and companies to contribute to the payload of the 2018 unmanned Mars Lander. The best ideas will be chosen by a panel of experts. This mission will act as a staging point for the first-ever human mission to the red planet in 2025.
Mars One is soliciting proposals for four demonstration payloads that will demonstrate technologies for the human mission in 2025, proposals for one payload that will be elected in a world wide university competition, and proposals for two payloads that are for sale to the highest bidder. These last two payloads can be used for scientific experiments, marketing activities or anything inbetween.
Mars colony (Credit: Mars One)
Endemol-owned Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) will exclusively follow the selection and training of the world’s first one way astronauts to MarsCandidates chosen from over 200,000 applicants will be tested to the extreme in one of the most extraordinary and challenging job interviews ever seen
The winners will be the first to make the 300 million-mile journey to establish permanent human life on the red planet
DSP’s landmark production will be broadcast around the world and further announcements are due to follow soon
LONDON, June 2, 2014 (Mars One PR) — Mars One and multi-award winning factual producer DSP (an Endemol company) today announced they have entered an international partnership to screen the mission to send the world’s first one way astronauts to Mars.
Mars colony (Credit: Mars One)
Amersfoort, May 5, 2014 (Mars One PR) – Mars One announced that 353 hopefuls from around the world have been eliminated from the selection program to become the first human Mars colonists. The number of people remaining in this once in many lifetimes opportunity is now just 705.