Bas Lansdorp wants to colonize Mars and he’s looking for volunteers to ripcord out of their lives on Earth and go. He is building his company, Mars One, that will send the first 4 people to Mars in 14 years to build a new society but it’s a one-way ticket.
The biggest challenge of the Mars One mission will be psychological.
If you want to go to Mars, no problem you’re just never coming back. You’re going to live there for the rest of your life.
So he’s been looking for future Mars settlers to date over 200,000 people have volunteered.
In this episode we discuss…
What drove Bas Lansdorp to found Mars One taking people on a one-way mission to Mars.
How he has built non-profit and for-profit companies to provide revenue and a return back to investors.
How much money does it take to get a spaceship to Mars?
Receiving over 200,000 volunteers to go on the first mission.
Why each mission will consist of a 4 person team?
What are the top 3 challenges? Oxygen, food, gravity or something else.
The physiological challenges that each individual team member will need to overcome.
How much ‘sense of humor’ plays into determining the best crew.
What if the crew has sex and one of them gets pregnant?
When will the second manned mission for Mars One will get to Mars?
This is the biggest ‘ripcord’ stories that has ever been told on the Go Hunt Life podcast. Bas is asking people to leave everything they’ve ever known, family, friends and Earth, to build a new society on Mars.
Show Notes
Website: Mars One
Twitter @Mars-One
Facebook @MarsOneProject
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