Mars One

Mars One was a small private Dutch organisation that received money from investors by claiming it would use it to land the first humans on Mars and leave them there to establish a permanent human colony. The Mars One foundation based in the Netherlands. It's a one way ticket to Mars where once you reach you can’t return back but stay until you are dead.

The time that it takes to get to Mars from Earth can be between 150 to 300 days. In every two years once there will be shortest distance of fifteen million kilometre from Earth to Mars. The confirmation that liquid water once flowed on Mars, the existence of nutrients and the previous discovery of past magnetic field that protects planet from cosmic and solar radiation, together strongly that Mars could have had the environmental factors to support life.

We may wonder that who will be interested to go to Mars, moving permanently to Mars would be the worst kind of punishment. Yet many people applied for Mars One's mission and dreamt of living in Mars one day. However, not everyone who wished to fly will be eligible to be settling there. There are multiple requirements to become a Mars One astronaut.

SELECTION PROCESS:

ROUND 1- It's a normal procedure that happens in any interview. All the interested candidates are asked submit an online application. This application consist of general information about the applicant , a resume, and a one minute video, and to answer “why they are eligible to set their foot in the Mars”. Once they got through this they will get into the next round.

ROUND 2- In this round they need to prove their physical fitness stating that they met all the requirements as defined.

ROUND 3- This is a group challenge to test their ability to work in team, interdependency, trust their problem solving strategies and creativity skill, etc.

ROUND 4-At last the filtered candidate have to undergo isolation challenge of the screening process.

From the initial 202,586 applicants, only 100 hopefully have been selected to proceed to the next round. The finalist will train for seven years and Mars One will begin sending out four at a time from 2024. The Indian candidates include 29 year old Taranjeet Singh, Ritika Singh 29 year old and Shradha Prasad 19 year old.

MARS ONE'S PROPOSED TIMELINE FORSETTING UP A COLONY:

2015 : The top candidates start training, and Mars One chose 24 candidates that it will send to mars.

2018 : Will launch a satellite into orbit that is capable of transmitting the messages between Earth and Mars.

2020 : A rover is sent to Mars to scout out the best spot for human settlement.

2022 : Supplies which includes two living units, two life support and a supply unit.

2023 : The rover collects all those supplies and gets the outpost setup and ready for human settlements.

2024 : The first four Mars colonizers leave the Earth.

^{The plan is for the settlers to live in pods that will look something like this.}

Mars One has received a variety of criticism mostly relating to medical, technical and financial feasibility. The main failures of this project was that the budget is way too low. But some way they met their needs too. The project is still too optimistic to be completed within ten years. Still the technology to keep people alive in Mars doesn't exist. It is not possible to transfer all the food requirements they need. Mars One has a lot of people excited but the odds are stacked against it.