78,000+ People Apply to Move to Mars FOREVER Mark Prigg - The Daily Mail
go to original May 11, 2013

This movie shows how Mars One plans to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023 (MarsOneProject)

Though a lifetime trip to a Mars may not be a typical life plan, that hasn't stopped more than 78,000 people from applying to sign up for the chance to be one of the select to see the Red Planet up close.

A Dutch company called Mars One began accepting applications just over two weeks ago for volunteers who want to be trained as astronauts.

Departure for the Red Planet is scheduled for 2022, landing seven months later in 2023 - and they will never return.
The colony as it is expected to look in 2015 - with four astronauts arriving every two years on the one-way mission

'With 78,000 applications in two weeks, this is turning out to be the most desired job in history,' said Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One. 'These numbers put us right on track for our goal of half a million applicants.'

They have been inundated with applications from all over the globe, and now must start sifting through the files in order to figure out who will be among in the group of candidates who proceed to the reality show round of the competition, where they will be whittled down to an even-smaller group of four finalists.

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