Mars One

Mars One is a private foundation under Dutch law, which has set itself the goal to land on Mars by 2025 people and to establish a permanent habitable settlement there. The project is led by the Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp. A scientific collaboration with the University of Twente has been agreed.

The mission concept is based on the premise that the participating astronauts return to Earth and thus spend the rest of her life on Mars. A return is not planned for reasons of cost and would also not serve well the purpose of the project. Mars One has already received applications from all over the world and would like to 2015 in a selection process with public participation, a group of up to 40 astronauts recruit, which therefore should form the basis of a Mars colonization.

  • 2.1 " Advisors " (consultant) 2.1.1 Other consultants

Planned mission

Financing

The project is to be marketed and financed by its own account as the biggest media event in world history by Reality TV Show ( TV or mission ). In contrast to known formats of this type, however, the focus will be on scientific and mission to provide supporting coverage, rather than increase its potential audience with initiated TV scandals. Required estimates of the project six billion U.S. dollars to the first manned landing.

Requirements

Prerequisite for participation is the age of majority. In addition, the astronauts are required to have good English skills and strong interpersonal skills. Furthermore, good health is a prerequisite. The flight from Earth to Mars takes seven Earth months. The strong radiation astronauts are exposed. After landing on Mars, the astronauts have to live in an average of minus 63 degrees Celsius cold environment. The Martian atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's and is mostly carbon dioxide.

Technology

Several international manufacturers in the aerospace told that necessary components for the project are available. Mars One expects to use components, inter alia, of the following companies:

Schedule

The plan proposes to deploy a communications satellite in Mars orbit in 2016 and to land on the planet's surface in 2023 the first human beings. In connection to land more groups of astronauts on Mars at a distance of two years:

  • 2013: For the selection of the first four -man crew, 202 586 people have applied, according to the organizer. At least 2782 of them have the application fee is paid and can use it to get into the next round of selection. Mars One is also interested in those who do not qualify for the next round, continue to call applicants. On December 30, 1058 applicants were informed that they had reached the second round of selection.
  • 2014: The first 40 astronauts to be selected. A replica of the Mars settlement will be built for training purposes on earth.
  • 2015: The training of astronauts begins.
  • 2018: A supply mission with 2.5 t equipment ( eg solar cells) should be sent with a modified Dragon capsule by SpaceX to Mars. Moreover, the first communications satellite is launched to deploy it in an orbit around Mars.
  • 2020: A Mars rover is to be used to select the location for the settlement.
  • 2023: Five more Dragon - modules are to be put into operation in order to create a habitable settlement.
  • 2024: A Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX is to start with the first group of four Mars colonists.
  • 2024: Five more Dragon - modules are to be put into operation in order to create a habitable settlement for the next colonists.
  • 2025: The first colonists to arrive on Mars.
  • 2027: A second group of four colonists to arrive on the planet.
  • Approximately every second year allows the planets of another transport of men and materials to the Red Planet. The settlement is to be continually expanded.

Consultant and ambassador

" Advisors " (consultant)

  • Robert Zubrin, profiled American aerospace engineer, president of Pioneer Astronautics and the founder of the international Mars Society.
  • Thais Russomano, Brazilian aviation and aerospace medical examiner.

Other consultants

  • Steve Carsey, Great Britain, experienced media maker and producer known television formats in the UK
  • Dennis Chamberland, USA, NASA engineer and underwater researcher, head of the Atlantica Expeditions establishing an underwater colony; experienced in the development of life-support system for use in a lunar or Mars colony
  • Esther Dyson, USA / Switzerland, investor and CEO of EDventure Holdings; focused on start-ups in the future areas such as aerospace, NASA Council of the Technology and Innovationskommitees sat at
  • Terry Gamber, USA, Aerospace Engineer; involved for over 50 years in space projects and missions to Mars, the U.S. and Europe, including to the Viking missions, Mars Global Surveyor, the Discovery program and JUNO
  • Brian Enke, USA, Senior Research Analyst Space of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado
  • Jamie Guined, USA, a scientist at the University of Houston in cooperation with the Johnson Space Center; explored effects of space travel on humans
  • Gautam Hariharan, India, entrepreneur and chairman of Grintex; working on India's Space Based Augmentation System
  • James R. Kass, Canada, researcher at the Institute of Technology ESTEC ESA
  • Raye Kass, Canada, Professor of Human Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal
  • Vlada Lašas, Lithuania, entrepreneur and speaker for Computer Vision at the Technical University in Kaunas
  • Leo F. M. Marcelis, Netherlands, Professor of Saatforschung and crop production at the University of Wageningen; Director of an institute for agricultural innovations in closed systems such as greenhouses
  • Peter Mani, Switzerland, managing director of tecrisk GmbH, which specializes in the scientific analysis of technical risks; experience in the fields of artificial intelligence, electromagnetic compatibility and biosecurity; worked in the ESA Planetary Protection Working Group, at the International Mars Architecture for Return of Samples in the International Mars Exploration Working Group and in the ESA Sample Return Study Group
  • Tanja Masson- Zwaan, Netherlands, Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law (Air and Space Law), University of Leiden
  • KR Sridhara Murthi, India, an expert in space law and professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore and at the Jain University, Vice- President of the International Institute of Space Law; a key figure in India's space program and experienced in entrepreneurial successful handling of space
  • Prof. Takeshi Naganuma, Japan, Professor at the Graduate School of Biosphere Science of Hiroshima University
  • Gino Ormeno, Peru, aviation and aerospace physicians; experienced in working with NASA
  • Günther Reitz, Germany, head of radiobiology at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine of the German Aerospace Center (DLR )
  • James W. Rice, USA, Astro geologist; learn by working for NASA and high-level institutes in the U.S., he worked the Mars Odyssey orbiter and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
  • John D. Rummel, USA, Director of the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy at East Carolina University; previously worked at the Ames Research Center of NASA
  • Stramigioli Stefano, Italy, professor of advanced robotics and mechatronics at the University of Twente
  • John W. Traphagan, USA, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; operates on the link between culture and science, with a special focus on possible forms of life beyond Earth.

" Ambassadors " (Ambassador )

  • Gerardus ' t Hooft, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
  • Mary Roach, American columnist and author.
  • Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, a physician and the first Malaysian astronaut.

Reactions

  • The head of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight and mission operations of the European Space Agency and former astronaut Thomas Reiter said in an interview with Focus, based on Mars One and the plan that the astronauts left on Mars:

"Even today, there are passionate researchers who would fly to Mars without a Return possibility to establish a colony. For ethical reasons ... it is therefore I have no doubt, to do everything that they can go home. "

  • The former science astronaut Ulrich Walter about the plans of Mars One:

"I think both the budget and the schedule for totally unrealistic. "

  • The Catholic theology professor Dieter Hattrup would have no moral objections, there is a realistic chance of survival would be:

" Otherwise, even Columbus would never sail across the Atlantic and the American colonists never allowed to move to the west. "

Trivia

  • MarsOne, or Mars -1 is also the name of the spaceship in both the movies Red Planet, and Mission to Mars.
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