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December 10, 2013

One-way ticket to Mars: space colonists wanted!
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 10, 2013
Bas Lansdorp, the founder of Mars One colony project, believes that in about a decade from now a colony of people from the Earth will appear on Mars. Experts confirm that with the current technologies this is quite possible. Eccentric as Bas Lansdorp's ideas may sound, his speech at a recent International Space Commerce summit gathered a full hall of listeners, mostly entrepreneurs. Lansdorp is expecting that the first unmanned mission to pave the way to the Red Planet will leave in 2016, fo ... read more

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