Mars One is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization that plans to send four astronauts on a one-way interplanetary trip every two years beginning in 2024.
Only a mission design that involves permanent settlement results in a technically feasible mission with an acceptable risk to the crews.
What do you hope the Mars One Mission will achieve? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community? Technology, scientific understanding, cooperation — is there anything we cannot achieve? For years afterwards, my near-death experience felt like a dirty little secret.