Company planning mission to Mars with 200,000 willing volunteers unveils plan for satellite and lander it intends to launch in just four years

Hopefuls said they would pack items such as a ukulele and a fluffy mongoose200,000 people around the world have signed up for one-way missionBetween 24 and 40 candidates will be chosen for the Mars One programmeThe Dutch non-profit company that has gathered 200,000 volunteers for its planned manned mission to Mars has unveiled details about the first stage of its mission.Mars One announced Tuesday that it has hired Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology to design a satellite and lander that it intends to launch in just four years.The robotic mission to the Red Planet will launch in January 2018 - two years later than initially planned, Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp said.The Lockheed Martin contract to design a Mars lander - similar to NASA's 2007 Phoenix lander - is worth $250,000, according to CBS News.Read More plus See Pics and Video @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2521764/Mars-One-announces-contract-Lockheed-Martin-Surrey-Satellite-design-space-mission.html

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Acute Observer December 12, 2013 at 4:29pm

Yea, we're still waiting for the space tourism Richard Branson promised the world a few years ago. He sold a bunch of tickets but have anyone yet actually gotten into space? I don't know. :)
Krishna Kalki December 12, 2013 at 1:40pm

All those who volunteered are traitors to Mother Earth as they plan to abandon her when their real mission being born here is to improve Planet Earth.
Cmdr Vrillion from The Ashtar Command has warned ...DO NOT LOOK FOR OTHER PLANETS TO LOVE ON IF YOU CANNOT LOOK AFTER THE PLANET YOU CALL HOME
- Acute Observer > Krishna Kalki December 12, 2013 at 4:38pm
  
  You're becoming more and more North Korean for every day that pass.
  
  Do you seriously think that you can go around, in the free world, and call people traitors only because they do not fulfill the life purpose you believe that they have?
  How dense are you, really?
  
  "Cmdr Vrillion from The Ashtar Command has warned"
  
  I'm sure he has, and I'm also sure his disciples follow that advice very strict, but .. On earth you're free to believe what you wish, and the ones thinking about leaving earth sure are not followers of the Ashtar-religion, and none of you followers have the right to judge them for it.
  Such judging can be found in many muslim countries right effing now. If You want to experience it, you may travel there instead, and leave this western world out of that particular kind of religious bickering. It's not even 3D, it's 2D. The lowest of the low.
Luke Skywalker December 12, 2013 at 2:20am

.. if you dont like Mars ...

you can try the Milky Way ..

and if you dont like the Milky Way ..

you can have a starbar ..

but if you dont like starbars ..

you can still have the Galaxy ..
- Krishna Kalki > Luke Skywalker December 12, 2013 at 2:38am
  
  Funny ... All those who booked tickets may find that nearing the date this company disappeared or they may find they are taken on a bogus trip and end up in a desert on Planet Earth ...making them believe it's Mars....it seems doggey
Krishna Kalki December 12, 2013 at 1:31am

If they do get there THEY WILL BE FACED BY THE MARTIANS...and if their motive is not good they will be thrown out of Mars ...into outer space since their ticket is one way
- Acute Observer > Krishna Kalki December 12, 2013 at 4:27pm
  
  I don't think the martians would be that cruel. We are technically their offspring, or at least some of it.
  
  Would You throw out your relative kids if they misbehave, or would you take them in and teach them instead? ;)

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