Want to fly to Mars

contest, they say, "astronomical", although candidates know that the flight is likely to be one-way. The chances of return flight to Mars, announced the Dutch company Mars One, very small. Despite this, and doubts expressed by experts about the possibility of the project, from wanting to get in the squad of 40 marsonavtov, which should be selected this year, have already expressed more than 100 thousand people. Approximately one in three of them - amerikanets.

In 2022, as reported in the project description, the top four will go to the Red Planet. The estimated cost of the project is estimated at $ 6 billion. Needed money Mars One hopes to raise with the help of sponsors and sales rights to all kinds of shows and transmission associated with the first flight to Mars. Organizers expect to colonize the Red Planet to send a few years after the first four four more marsonavtov. None of them will return back to Earth. At least now return flights not planiruyutsya.

On the set of candidates marsonavtov squad was announced, writes Daily Telegraph, in May 2012. The cost of the application varies depending on the country of residence of the candidate. In America, for example, it is 38 dollars.

Source: www.kp.ru/daily/26118.5/3012024/