In the desert of Utah, USA, simulates a crew of the European Space Agency ESA life on Mars: cut off from any supply, on their own, isolated (photo. : picture alliance / dpa) Thursday 02 January 2014
you should commence a seven-month flight through space and build a colony on Mars. Return: None. Thousands of people still apply for the trip, a first selection is made. But it did the candidates far.
from a field of applicants from more than 200,000 people from 140 countries for a flight to Mars has a Dutch organization now the first selected in 1058. As Mars One announced that it will in subsequent stages of a TV show at the end of 24 Selected remain. The organization of the show inventor Bas Lansdorp want to stop taking from 2025, a total of six groups of four on the Red Planet. They are there to build a colony. Return trips to Earth are not provided.
Mars One of the requests at least 18 years old participants good health, social skills and good knowledge of English. Who is selected, you must first survive the powerful radiation during the seven-month flight and the difficult landing. Next, the lay-astronauts have to live on a dry planet where there is an average of minus 63 degrees cold. The atmosphere on Mars consists mainly of harmful carbon dioxide. In order to breathe, the Mars visitors Residential containers would have to build, they would have to win with complex technical process, water, and they would have before on Mars strong, harmful radiation protection.
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The project has met with widespread skepticism. Russia’s top cosmonauts Sergei Krikaljow instructor has criticized a possible flight to Mars without recurrence a few months ago as a moronic idea. If anyone seriously considering this, he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital, said the head of Yuri Gagarin Training Center. “Alone from the viewpoint of security not produce any expert will ever allow such a flight,” said Krikaljow. A similar response of Russia’s longest-cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov. “Space should be useful, but to fly in his own end, seems pointless to me,” said the 60-year-old.
The Mars One project has with the Dutch Nobel Prize winner Gerard ‘t Hooft but also a prominent supporter. So far, only unmanned robotic vehicles were sent to Mars. Recently launched India last November, a Mars mission. In August 2012, the NASA research robot “Curiosity” landed on the planet.
Source: n-tv.de
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