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Group Plans Settlement On Mars By 2023
A Dutch company called Mars One is planning to settle Mars by the year 2023 by sending people on a one-way rocket ride to the red planet.
And Mars One hopes to turn the entire process into a reality TV show.
They say that the only way the mission will be possible is to fund it commercially. And the only business model that they say they believe is currently feasible, is one based on the creation of a “global media spectacle” around the project.
They hope a worldwide audience would help pick the teams of settlers, follow their training observe the trip, and pay for it. The mission is estimated to cost $6 billion.
The plan would be to establish a habitable settlement that would receive new astronauts every two years.
The group claims that existing technology would make it feasible. Mars One estimates the trip would take seven months.
Read more here: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19262671/group-plans-mars-settlement
