One of the speakers at this year’s Festival of Curiosity in Dublin, Dr Joseph Roche, is aiming to be one of the first humans to set foot on Mars in 10 years’ time.
Having first announced its plans in 2003, a Dutch non-profit group known as Mars One is attempting to achieve what the leading government space agencies of the world have failed to do, that is, making it actually possible to become an interplanetary species within the first half of the 21st century.
The obvious difference is that those making the trip a decade from now will not have originally been former fighter pilots but rather members of the public who would have trained from scratch and eventually become the stars of a scientific experiment and reality TV show based on what would be the greatest event ever to bestow mankind.
He better dress warm. :-) To read more, click here.