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Mars One has captured the imagination of numerous people from around the world fascinated with the prospect of pioneering a new chapter in space exploration. (See interior habitat image above.) It reported that 200,000 people submitted applications to be candidates for the first Mars crews. Mars One has shortlisted 10050 males and 50 females to advance to the selection stage.

But the project has been shrouded in controversy. Last week a former NASA researcher, Joseph Roche, now of Trinity College and who became one of the 100 financials to live on the Mars settlement, expressed concerns over how contenders earned their spot, claiming they paid for it. Lansdorp has responded in a video that these claims are untrue and his project is not a scam.

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NASA experts point out the many challenges such an undertaking will face, questioning if this project can ever get off the ground in the estimated time frame. This kind of scenario would have humansfor the first timeextend spaceflight to months or years. How travelers will fare under these conditions is anyone's guess.

Another unknown is how a small number of humans will be able to exist on the harsh desolate Red planeta fragile oasis of water and oxygen on an inhospitable Martian soil, where temperatures average around minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit. Those astronauts will be subject to whims of solar and dust storms, meteorite strikes and physical injury. Given the limited medical resources, this is a very dangerous endeavor.

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Mars One has captured the imagination of numerous people from around the world fascinated with the prospect of pioneering a new chapter in space exploration. (See interior habitat image above.) It reported that 200,000 people submitted applications to be candidates for the first Mars crews. Mars One has shortlisted 10050 males and 50 females to advance to the selection stage.

But the project has been shrouded in controversy. Last week a former NASA researcher, Joseph Roche, now of Trinity College and who became one of the 100 financials to live on the Mars settlement, expressed concerns over how contenders earned their spot, claiming they paid for it. Lansdorp has responded in a video that these claims are untrue and his project is not a scam.

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NASA experts point out the many challenges such an undertaking will face, questioning if this project can ever get off the ground in the estimated time frame. This kind of scenario would have humansfor the first timeextend spaceflight to months or years. How travelers will fare under these conditions is anyone's guess.

Another unknown is how a small number of humans will be able to exist on the harsh desolate Red planeta fragile oasis of water and oxygen on an inhospitable Martian soil, where temperatures average around minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit. Those astronauts will be subject to whims of solar and dust storms, meteorite strikes and physical injury. Given the limited medical resources, this is a very dangerous endeavor.

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Millionaire's plan to colonize Mars

Mars One promises to send humans on a one-way trip to the red planet, with the intent to colonize, by 2027. Once the first four people leave Earth for Mars, there's no turning back, no panic button, no chance to return home. This aspect of the trip isn't just for drama -- it's a core tenet of Mars One's technical feasibility. CEO Bas Lansdorp believes that it's possible, using current technology, to land and sustain human life on Mars.

But the systems that would power a human settlement on an alien planet are ridiculously complex. They're so complicated that Lansdorp isn't yet sure what they will actually be. This lack of ready research has mired Mars One in controversy, thanks to a recent one-two credibility punch: First, a 2014 research paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes that the program is not realistic. Second, a series of articles for Matter magazine calls into question the feasibility of Mars One financially, scientifically and ethically. Still, Lansdorp promises to send humans to live on Mars, but he can't yet say how. He wants the world to trust him.

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Mars One plans to send four people to Mars in 12 years, with the intent to launch subsequent manned missions and colonize the planet. Its Technical Feasibility section promises that the mission is possible using "existing, validated and available technology." Lansdorp places his faith completely in the companies that will build the necessary systems; Mars One won't manufacture any hardware itself.

Lansdorp, who founded his own wind-energy company in 2008, freely admits he doesn't understand the scientific details behind Mars One's proposals. "On a high level, yes. On a detailed level, absolutely not. I'm a mechanical engineer, so I know about the scientific principles in general," he says.

This is one reason Mars One will outsource all technological work: Currently, Paragon Space Development Corporation is working on Mars One's life-support systems. Paragon is preparing a report on the technical aspects of life on Mars, due out before the end of April. This will be Mars One's first attempt at explaining the dense science behind its space-survival concepts.

But for now, Mars One makes huge, impossible-sounding claims, but doesn't offer answers to technical questions, which is one reason MIT dove in itself.

"The Mars One mission plan, as described on their website and by Mr. Lansdorp on several occasions, is not feasible," write Sydney Do and Andrew Owens, the researchers behind the MIT study. They argue that Mars One's technological conceit is simply not viable. "Significant technology development is required before we can even land and sustain humans on Mars, much less support a growing colony," they say.

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The private colonization project Mars One has pushed its planned launch of the first humans toward the Red Planet back by two years, to 2026.

The delay was necessitated by a lack of investment funding, which has slowed work on a robotic precursor mission that Mars One had wanted to send toward the Red Planet in 2018, Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp said in a new video posted today (March 19).

That robotic mission aims to launch a lander and orbiter to Mars, to test out technologies needed for human settlement. Mars One, a Netherlands-based nonprofit, awarded contracts to aerospace firms Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology to work on the lander and orbiter, respectively. [Images of Mars One's Red Planet Colony Project]

"We had a very successful investment round in 2013 that has financed all the things that we have done up to now. And we have actually come to an agreement with a consortium of investors late last year for a much bigger round of investments. Unfortunately, the paperwork of that deal is taking much longer than we expected," Lansdorp said in the video.

"I now think that it will be done before the summer of this year. That means that we will not be in time to finance the follow-up study that Lockheed Martin needs to do for our first unmanned mission in 2018, which unfortunately means that we will have to delay that mission to 2020," he added. "Delaying our first unmanned mission by two years also means that all the other missions will move by the same period of time, having our first human landing now planned for 2027."

The new video was apparently made in response to an article critical of Mars One that Matter posted earlier this week.

In the article, astrophysicist Joseph Roche, a former Mars One astronaut candidate, alleges that the organization has been picking its astronauts at least partly based on how much money they donate to the private colonization effort. Roche also says that Mars One's selection process is flawed and slipshod. Further, article author Elmo Keep alleges that Mars One received just 2,761 applications from prospective Red Planet settlers, not the 202,000 claimed by the organization.

Lansdorp disputes these assertions in the video, saying that money has nothing to do with the selection process, and that Mars One's numbers are accurate.

"We offered the reporter, the first journalist ever, access to our list of 200,000 applications but she was not interested in that," Lansdorp said. "It seems that she is more interested in writing a sensational article about Mars One than in the truth."

Lansdorp also defended the selection process, claiming that it will become more thorough from here on out, as the organization whittles the group down from 100 finalists to the 24 who will train to go to Mars. (Mars One aims to launch four-person crews to the Red Planet every two years, beginning in 2026; at the moment, there are no plans to bring any of these pioneers back to Earth.)

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Mars One, a Dutch nonprofit organization aiming to land the first humans on Mars and establish a space colony by 2025, appears to have run into trouble.

Astrophysicist Joseph Roche, one of the 100 shortlisted candidates, was excited about the project until recently.

However, his disposition has soured. At best, things are not quite what they appear to be, according to Roche.

Roche pointed to an assessment of the Mars One mission by a team of MIT students led by Sydney Do, a Ph.D. candidate in aeronautics and astronautics, whose thesis focuses on planetary colonization. The team's assessment concludes, in essence, that the project is not feasible within its established parameters.

Mars One did not engage with that team, which caused Roche concern.

Further, Mars One claimed to receive applications from 200,000 people, when the actual number was 2,761, he pointed out.

The candidate selection process was not rigorous enough, Roche also said, and rankings were influenced by how much candidates donated to the project.

Candidates were encouraged to donate 75 percent of any fees received for interviews to the organization. Project costs, by Mars One's own admission, will run into the billions of dollars.

"I think anyone close to the space program knew this was unrealistic," said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.

"There are major challenges to colonizing another planet, some of which scientists are still working to overcome," he told TechNewsWorld, "but the concept is built on a fantasy that many people, including myself, would love to believe in."

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