The founder of Mars One, Bas Landsdorp "The challenge was to separate those who have the physical ability and the qualities to become human ambassadors on Mars, and the others"
The Mars One company, which seeks to send four humans to Mars in 2025, announced a few days ago (December 30) the selection of 1,058 candidates from over 200 people who wanted to participate in establishing a manned colony on Mars.
Mars One founder, Bass Landsdorp "We appreciate and were also impressed by the huge number of people who submitted their applications. However, there were those who did not take the task seriously, including those who submitted their videos naked. The challenge was to separate those who had the physical ability and qualities to become human ambassadors to Mars, from the others.
According to Landsdorp, those who are rejected this time will be able to apply in another round for which the date has not yet been determined. He mentioned the American astronaut Clayton Anderson who was rejected by NASA 15 times and yet took off on the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. He proved that anything can happen and the door is still not completely closed."
Those who received the positive answer this week will go through additional stages of screening, Norbert Kraft, Chief Medical Officer of Mars One says that "the next stages of screening in 2014 and 2015 will include rigorous simulations, group dynamics and tests of the physical and emotional abilities of the remaining candidates. We look forward to understanding the motives that led our candidates to take the giant step for the benefit of the human race and to get to know the communities in which each of the candidates is a member.
"We expect that the remaining candidates will become famous in their cities, and in many cases in their countries. It's going to be very interesting."
On December 10, the Mars One company launched the crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of launching an unmanned rocket to test the system. The company has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin and the British nanosatellite company Surrey to develop spacecraft for a mission to be launched in 2018. In 2014, the Mars One company is expected to conduct educational events around the world in addition to engaging in the following inspections.
The criteria for candidacy for a flight to Mars
to the announcement of Mars One
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Friends, I think you are not familiar with the stages of the program and its financing method.
So briefly
The goal is to start colonizing Mars and therefore there is no intention to return the first expedition because there will be more expeditions to Mars every two years.
The preparations a long time in advance for the reason that it is necessary to prepare the people so that they can start building life on Mars is a task in itself, it is necessary to teach them to live alone, to repair and build systems to grow food for their livelihood, to explore the environment, to heal themselves and more.
They send every few years until 2024 units of communication, residential buildings, oxygen production, food off-road vehicle and construction.
And when the people take off, all the systems of their living will already be working for years so that it is possible to know that at least some things will exist and work on Mars so that they will not reach a completely abandoned place.
Beyond that, regarding the launch of the spacecraft that will fly the people, it will be made of several parts that will go into orbit near the Earth and connect and only then will they fly to Mars.
In any case, the "road map" of "Mars Van" is better detailed on their website, it is recommended to read it
http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap
Regarding the financing
It is understandable if tens of thousands of people send videos in order to be accepted for the mission, then what is the amount like the people who will be interested over time in the training of the people, pictures and films from Mars from the launches over the years and continuous and maybe even live video of the tasks that the robots will perform until the arrival of the people and of course the take off of the people and their flight during 250 days to Mars Which of course is not a year and a half, the flight times to Mars have shortened and will certainly possibly shorten even more until takeoff.
Think how many people will watch such a thing around the world, millions maybe hundreds of millions.
Their goal is a reality show similar to Big Brother that broadcasts non-stop about what is happening before during all these events. I think that big and small advertisers will want to advertise the program time is very long and will be able to make paid subscribers to watch it.
And their reliance is similar to the Olympic Games. Here is a link to profits from the Games
http://www.mars-one.com/faq/finance-and-feasibility/what-is-the-mars-one-business-model
Skeptic - they need the money. They are currently still in the fundraising phase. Every now and then they release 'new' information to create hype and thus hopefully get more sponsorships and such 🙂
I don't understand what the excitement is here...
If there are so many candidates,
who are ready to kill themselves, almost certainly,
Why not send them now?
My feeling is that they are a bit trying to jump over the navel. The full moon has already sent people to it and there is some experience. But Mars? Shouldn't you start with something more modest? Virgin Galactic may still go very far, but right now they are doing concrete things and progressing step by step.
Adi Herzliya
Regarding section 1, an error. In the 70s, the Russians sent a doctor to the Mir space station, who stayed there for a year and a half. And also regarding the International Space Station, there were two cases, if I'm not mistaken, of two Russian astronauts who stayed there for a year each.
Regarding paragraph 3, you refer to the escape velocity. The Apollo pilots on their way to the moon reached such a speed that they had to break away from the Earth's gravity.
Regarding section 5, the two options are a Chinese astronaut or the assessor. They will have to fill out form 106 and fill out a capital declaration form.
Please try to be precise in the details
Crazy people with a crazy project
Some simple facts
1) To this day, no one has stayed in space for more than six months and no one can say what will happen to people who stay for about a year and a half on the way
On the contrary, more and more evidence is accumulating that a long stay in space involves medical problems that are very difficult to solve
As an example, the shrinking of the brain that was observed in most of the astronauts who returned from a long stay, the muscle weakness, etc.
2) People returning from a long stay in space are received by a support team that physically carries them out of the spacecraft
And it takes them over a week to adjust back to normal gravity conditions. Who will wait for them on Mars?
3) For a flight to the moon with a stay of about 15 days (round trip) the Americans released a spacecraft that weighed (without the carrying stages)
About 42 tons, and to partially escape the Earth's gravity, a Saturn 5 rocket was built, the likes of which has never been built since.
To send an expedition to Mars with all the food and oxygen and the spare parts required to repair immediate malfunctions, a spacecraft of the order of several hundred tons is required, and it must be accelerated to a complete separation speed from the Earth (11.2 km per second)
Who builds and tries such an accelerator? And I'm no longer talking about the financial challenge, but the technological challenge.
4) What awaits the landers on Mars? How many days can they be there before they run out of food?
5) A year and a half of being in space is a very long time even for the biological mechanisms of a living person. Even if they are completely sterilized and they will be without a single contaminating germ and without any virus. (And don't ask me how to do it...) The mechanisms of the body itself
Some astronauts can go wrong. then what? That astronaut becomes a serious nuisance. And the solutions in this case are not human...
So I don't really believe it.
Is "human ambassadors" a washed-up name for guinea pigs?
Who is the crazy person who would want to fly in one direction?
I think Gil is right. A fighter jet today costs 100 million dollars and an aircraft carrier - 6 billion.
Seems as reliable as homeopathy to me...
They are quite entertaining with all their shows.
Registration, filtering, simulations... as if they already have an aircraft ready for launch.
Mars One themselves estimate the cost of the mission at $6 billion. So far they have collected several millions. Their assessment in my opinion is very, very, very low. The Apollo project cost over $100 billion in today's money. You want to tell me that a flight and the establishment of a colony on Mars will only cost 6 billion?
If everything goes smoothly in about 10 years, for the first time in history a person will land on another planet