Mars One - final 100 applicants shortlisted for the one-way trip to the Red Planet.

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Mars One, the Netherlands-based non-profit organization that plans to have a permanent colony of humans based in Mars by 2025, will announce the final 100 applicants shortlisted for the one-way trip to the Red Planet next week.
The Dutch organization is a bit of a mystery. NASA says a manned mission to Mars is still decades away, but Mars One insists it will not only send people to Mars by 2024, it also claims it will have set up a thriving human colony there. A colony in which the occupants will be able to spend the rest of their lives (with average lifespans).
Mars One says it will be announcing who will be included in the shortlist of 100 applicants on Monday. Organizers have had to whittle down the final number from a total of 200,000 people who had put their names forward for the one-way journey.
In this historic mission, all space travelers will go to Mars, and stay there, i.e. never come back.
First a satellite will be sent to Mars in 2018, then a rover two years later, followed by a cargo vessel with a habitation module, where the first colonists will live, in 2022.
Scientists the world over say the plan is a pipe dream, arguing that current technology will not be able to get people onto the Red Planet and keep them there alive. They are certain the whole mission will end in disaster.
The private spaceflight project is led by Bas Landsdorp, a Dutch entrepreneur, who first announced his Mars One mission plans in May 2012.
Feasibility of the mission
The Mars One scientific team admits that its mission is complex, but insists it is definitely feasible. They say the science and technology required to place human beings on the Red Planet currently exist.

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