One way ticket to Mars
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Speech on One way ticket to Mars The world is in the grip of Mars mania. Is it new, one may ask. Our fascination with the Red Planet goes back to hundreds of years even though it is not Earth's companion like Moon in our solar system. The group that is planning to send humans on a one-way trip to the red planet, has announced its final 100 candidates who have been selected from 200,000 applicants. As the trip is the first of its kind, the finalists will have to go through further testing later this year, including team-building training and physical exercises. Although the final candidates have been selected from the most resilient, adaptable and resourceful candidates, they still need to be trained physically and psychologically in teams of four, each from a different continent for a period of seven years before the first launch in 2022. The Dutch non-profit explains that eventually 24 finalists will be selected making up six crews of four that will start a colony o...