Mars One - A Human Colony on the Red Planet

Introduction:

Mars One is a project that wants to put humans on Mars by 2024. It is a private
organization with headquarters in the Netherlands. By 2035 Mars a human colony
of 24 people will live permanently on Mars.

Development:

The mission calls for the launch of unmanned spacecraft that will bring the
necessary equipment, living units and survival gear to Mars as soon as 2020.
Starting in 2024, the first four people will start their seven month journey to the red
planet. In the following years five more groups of colonists will fly to Mars. The
project was first announced in 2011 by the head of the mission Bas Lansdorp. He
claims that over 200,000 people from around the world were interested in the
project. Mars One selected a first pool of possible candidates in 2013 and have
narrowed the number down to a hundred. In 2015 the final 24 people will be
chosen and split into six teams of four who will be sent to the red planet.

Conclusion:

Mars One is a one-way trip that, according to the Dutch organization, will cost
around 6 billion dollars, much less than any NASA project to put a man on Mars.
The project is to be funded by donations from around the world but most of the
money is expected to come from a media group that will broadcast the whole
mission to Earth.