Forget being an OFW. Be a colonist! :grin:
If you think you've got the right stuff to make a pioneering space voyage to Mars, fire up the video camera and tell Mars One officials why they should select you for the trip.
The Netherlands-based non-profit told Space.com recently that it is soliciting astronaut audition tapes as part of its selection process for a Mars mission targeted for 2023. Mars One, co-founded by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, aims to establish a permanent Mars colony, beginning with a four-person crew that would travel to the planet aboard a specialized Dragon spacecraft built by private space contractor SpaceX.
What's more, the audition process will be modeled after televised talent shows like American Idol. Space industry experts will whittle down the candidate list, but the final selection of the first four colonists to make the trip to Mars will come down to an audience vote following a "global reality television series," Lansdorp said, according to the site.
Mars One told Space.com it would begin accepting one-minute audition videos between now and July to kick off a two-year search for Mars colonists. Years before the crewed mission, the organization aims to send robot probes to Mars to scout colony location sites, with the first such mission planned to take place by 2016.
The foundation intends to have 24 astronauts in training by July 2015. Following the initial voyage to Mars in 2023, Mars One plans to send five more teams of four colonists to the planet every two years.
"We expect a million applications with one-minute videos, and hopefully some of those videos will go viral," Lansdorp, Mars One's CEO, told Space.com in London last week at a meeting of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), the site reported.
Mars One will charge a fee for video submissions to both "weed out folks who aren't serious about their candidacy" and raise money for the ambitious project, he added. Fees will vary for applicants based on country of originMars One will accept applications from all over the world, according to Space.comwith a maximum entry fee of $25.
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If you think you've got the right stuff to make a pioneering space voyage to Mars, fire up the video camera and tell Mars One officials why they should select you for the trip.
The Netherlands-based non-profit told Space.com recently that it is soliciting astronaut audition tapes as part of its selection process for a Mars mission targeted for 2023. Mars One, co-founded by Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp, aims to establish a permanent Mars colony, beginning with a four-person crew that would travel to the planet aboard a specialized Dragon spacecraft built by private space contractor SpaceX.
What's more, the audition process will be modeled after televised talent shows like American Idol. Space industry experts will whittle down the candidate list, but the final selection of the first four colonists to make the trip to Mars will come down to an audience vote following a "global reality television series," Lansdorp said, according to the site.
Mars One told Space.com it would begin accepting one-minute audition videos between now and July to kick off a two-year search for Mars colonists. Years before the crewed mission, the organization aims to send robot probes to Mars to scout colony location sites, with the first such mission planned to take place by 2016.
The foundation intends to have 24 astronauts in training by July 2015. Following the initial voyage to Mars in 2023, Mars One plans to send five more teams of four colonists to the planet every two years.
"We expect a million applications with one-minute videos, and hopefully some of those videos will go viral," Lansdorp, Mars One's CEO, told Space.com in London last week at a meeting of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), the site reported.
Mars One will charge a fee for video submissions to both "weed out folks who aren't serious about their candidacy" and raise money for the ambitious project, he added. Fees will vary for applicants based on country of originMars One will accept applications from all over the world, according to Space.comwith a maximum entry fee of $25.