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Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Unmanned missions will prepare a habitable living environment. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024.
The first round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Program has now closed for applications. In the 5 month application period, Mars One received interest from 202,586 people from around the world, wanting to be amongst the first human settlers on Mars.
Mars One applicants come from over 140 countries; the largest numbers are from the United States (24%), India (10%), China (6%), Brazil (5%), Great Britain (4%), Canada (4%), Russia (4%), Mexico (4%), Philippines (2%), Spain (2%), Colombia (2%), Argentina (2%), Australia (1%), France (1%), Turkey (1%), Chile (1%), Ukraine (1%), Peru (1%), Germany (1%), Italy (1%) and Poland (1%).
From this applicant pool, the Mars One Selection Committee will select prospective Martian settlers in three additional rounds spread across two years. By 2015, six to ten teams of four individuals will be selected for seven years of full-time training. In 2023, one of these teams will become the first humans ever to land on Mars and live there for the rest of their lives.
The current applicants will be screened by the Mars One Selection Committee. This process is expected to take several months. Candidates selected to pass to the next round will be notified by the end of 2013. The second round of selection will start in 2014, where the candidates will be interviewed in person by a Mars One Selection Committee.
The time schedule, as it is presented in the road map, and the exact dates and years of the missions to Mars, were selected based on astronomical positions of Mars and the Earth. We have discussed the time schedule with our potential suppliers. They have all confirmed to us that they can build the required components within the agreed period.
A potential challenge for Mars One will be to secure enough funding to pay our suppliers on time for their hardware development work. However, at this moment, Mars One needs only a small fraction of the total six billion US$. Our initial round of funding will be used to pay our candidate suppliers to perform conceptual design studies. The results of the studies will give the sponsors and investors more confidence in the technical feasibility of sending humans to Mars.
With the added confidence, we expect to be able to convince them to invest in the next technical step. With each technical step, we will also hugely increase our visibility in the media, resulting in greater interest and revenue for Mars One, and increased value for our sponsors. By way of this staged approach to technical progress and funding, we expect to be able to deliver to the proposed schedule.
The launcher that we plan to use will have an extensive track record, and be thoroughly tried and tested by the time of our first launch. Mars components will also be tested thoroughly on Earth. However, the possibility of failure of a launch or a surface component can never be fully excluded. This could lead to a delay of up to two years.
Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Unmanned missions will prepare a habitable living environment. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024.
The first round of the Mars One Astronaut Selection Program has now closed for applications. In the 5 month application period, Mars One received interest from 202,586 people from around the world, wanting to be amongst the first human settlers on Mars.
Mars One applicants come from over 140 countries; the largest numbers are from the United States (24%), India (10%), China (6%), Brazil (5%), Great Britain (4%), Canada (4%), Russia (4%), Mexico (4%), Philippines (2%), Spain (2%), Colombia (2%), Argentina (2%), Australia (1%), France (1%), Turkey (1%), Chile (1%), Ukraine (1%), Peru (1%), Germany (1%), Italy (1%) and Poland (1%).
From this applicant pool, the Mars One Selection Committee will select prospective Martian settlers in three additional rounds spread across two years. By 2015, six to ten teams of four individuals will be selected for seven years of full-time training. In 2023, one of these teams will become the first humans ever to land on Mars and live there for the rest of their lives.
The current applicants will be screened by the Mars One Selection Committee. This process is expected to take several months. Candidates selected to pass to the next round will be notified by the end of 2013. The second round of selection will start in 2014, where the candidates will be interviewed in person by a Mars One Selection Committee.
The time schedule, as it is presented in the road map, and the exact dates and years of the missions to Mars, were selected based on astronomical positions of Mars and the Earth. We have discussed the time schedule with our potential suppliers. They have all confirmed to us that they can build the required components within the agreed period.
A potential challenge for Mars One will be to secure enough funding to pay our suppliers on time for their hardware development work. However, at this moment, Mars One needs only a small fraction of the total six billion US$. Our initial round of funding will be used to pay our candidate suppliers to perform conceptual design studies. The results of the studies will give the sponsors and investors more confidence in the technical feasibility of sending humans to Mars.
With the added confidence, we expect to be able to convince them to invest in the next technical step. With each technical step, we will also hugely increase our visibility in the media, resulting in greater interest and revenue for Mars One, and increased value for our sponsors. By way of this staged approach to technical progress and funding, we expect to be able to deliver to the proposed schedule.
The launcher that we plan to use will have an extensive track record, and be thoroughly tried and tested by the time of our first launch. Mars components will also be tested thoroughly on Earth. However, the possibility of failure of a launch or a surface component can never be fully excluded. This could lead to a delay of up to two years.
