Now available: One way ticket to Mars

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Mars One, a Dutch start-up, has announced a casting call for travelers to Mars starting in 2022 — and who will never return back to Earth but will live and start a colony on the Red Planet. The colony’s budget comes in at “about $6 billion,” more than the $2.5 billion mission of NASA’s rover Curiosity, the most advanced and biggest robot to ever traverse Mars. Every two years, a new crew would join the first batch of volunteer astronauts. Each flight will carry two men and two women, so reproduction on Mars would be feasible but not intended. The company said it has received over 10,000 e-mails from interested would-be spacefarers.



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