DS562
04-24-2013, 06:47 AM
but you wont be coming back.
A Dutch company called Mars One began looking Monday for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars (http://applicants.mars-one.com/). Departure for the Red Planet is scheduled for 2022, landing seven months later in 2023.
The space travelers will return ... never. They will finish out their lives on Mars, representatives from the nonprofit said.
"It's likely that there will be a crematorium," said CEO Bas Lansdorp. "It's up to the people on Mars to decide what to do with their dead."
Still, the company said it has received more than 10,000 e-mails from interested would-be spacefarers.
A one-way ticket to Mars, apply now - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/world/mars-one-way-ticket/index.html)
A Dutch company called Mars One began looking Monday for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars (http://applicants.mars-one.com/). Departure for the Red Planet is scheduled for 2022, landing seven months later in 2023.
The space travelers will return ... never. They will finish out their lives on Mars, representatives from the nonprofit said.
"It's likely that there will be a crematorium," said CEO Bas Lansdorp. "It's up to the people on Mars to decide what to do with their dead."
Still, the company said it has received more than 10,000 e-mails from interested would-be spacefarers.
A one-way ticket to Mars, apply now - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/world/mars-one-way-ticket/index.html)