The Red Planet: The Journey To Mars

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A year ago, maybe you have heard of the advertisement saying that if you will buy this certain product, you will have the chance to join other people in a one-way ticket journey to Mars. Thought it was a joke? Like a sci-fi scene from the movie Red Planet, but it was not. Mars One, a non-profit foundation led by a Dutch National and Entrepreneur planned to beat NASA in getting people to the Red Planet to establish a human settlement by 2027. With an estimated $6 billion for the first mission and $4 billion for every next manned mission, the idea is to send a crew of four every two years beginning 2027, steadily increasing the colony’s size. With the use of existing technology, the founder of Mars One believed that this voyage would

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