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NASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars - the snag is that you won't come back.
It is actively investigating the possibility of humans colonising worlds such as the Red Planet.
The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to bring them home.
NASArevealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commencework on the project at its Ames Research Centre in California.
Centredirector Pete Worden, who claimed humans could be living on Mars by2030 despite the inhospitable conditions, said: "The human spaceprogram is now aimed at settling other worlds.
"Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars or get fired."
NT'ers, who would be down?
Me personally, I wouldn't do that just for a little section in the NASA history books.
NASA is looking for volunteers to fly to Mars - the snag is that you won't come back.
It is actively investigating the possibility of humans colonising worlds such as the Red Planet.
The settlers would be sent supplies from Earth but would go on the understanding that it would be too costly to bring them home.
NASArevealed that it had already received more than $1 million to commencework on the project at its Ames Research Centre in California.
Centredirector Pete Worden, who claimed humans could be living on Mars by2030 despite the inhospitable conditions, said: "The human spaceprogram is now aimed at settling other worlds.
"Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars or get fired."
NT'ers, who would be down?
Me personally, I wouldn't do that just for a little section in the NASA history books.
