Mars One’s Mission Objective 
 
 It is the Mission Objective of Mars One to establish a human settlement on the planet Mars in 2023. 
 
 Vision of Mars One 
 
 Mars One believes human exploration of the solar system should be a global effort, greater than the ambition of an individual nation. Mars exploration offers an opportunity to celebrate the power of a united humanity. 
 
 
 
 As with the Apollo Moon landings, a human mission to Mars will inspire generations to believe that all things are possible, that anything can be achieved. Mars One believes it is not only possible, but imperative that we establish a permanent settlement on Mars in order to accelerate our understanding of the formation of the solar system, the origins of life, and of equal importance, our place in the universe. 
 
 The Working Plan 
 
 In 2011, the founding members of the Mars One team came together to develop a strategic plan for taking humanity to Mars. That first year yielded the completion of a feasibility study, calling upon experts from space agencies and private aerospace corporations around the world. Written letters of interest in support of the Mars One plan were received. In this first-stage analysis, Mars One incorporated technical, financial, social-psychological and ethical components into its foundation plan. 
 
 
 
 This tremendous undertaking can only be achieved through the careful, deliberate movement through both the technical and media stages, gaining momentum and credibility with each completed step. The first effort is to award contracts to the already engaged aerospace suppliers, thus solidifying the Mission as technically feasible. At the same time, Mars One will launch the Astronaut Selection Program, open to anyone in the world. 
 
 
 
 Not unlike the televised events of the Olympic Games, Mars One intends to maintain an on-going, global media event, from astronaut selection to training, from lift-off to landing, to provide primary funding for this next giant leap for mankind. ||||| There will be life on Mars: Mission to create first human colony by 2023 - and it will be filmed for reality TV show 
 
 
 
 Seven-month mission to be financed by reality show on Earth 
 
 By 2033, there will be 20 people living on Mars 
 
 Mission backed by co-creator of Big Brother and Nobel-winning physicists 
 
 Reality show on Earth will finance mission 
 
 
 
 An independent space launch company aims to put four people on Mars by April 2023 - and the team will not be coming back. 
 
 Mars One claims that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars. 
 
 The company has been in talks with independent space suppliers such as Space X, which recently launched the first privately owned rocket to the Space Station. 
 
 
 
 Mars One claims that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars 
 
 The Dutch company is backed by a Nobel prize winning physicist, Gerard 't Hooft (pictured) - and also by Paul Romer, co-creator of Big Brother 
 
 The Dutch company is backed by a Nobel prize winning physicist, Gerard 't Hooft - and also by Paul Romer, co-creator of Big Brother. 
 
 The company aims to start training astronauts next year - and will turn the selection and training programme into a 'media event' similar to a reality show. 
 
 
 
 'We see this as a journey that belongs to us all, and it is for this reason that we will make every step one that we take together,' says the company. 
 
 'This will also be our way to finance the mission: the mission to Mars will be the biggest media event ever! 
 
 
 
 'The entire world will be able to watch and help with decisions as the teams of settlers are selected, follow their extensive training and preparation for the mission and of course observe their settling on Mars once arrived. The emigrated astronauts will share their experiences with us as they build their new home, conduct experiments and explore Mars.' 
 
 Mars One's plan has been in development since 2011. 
 
 
 
 The journey to Mars will take seven months, says the Dutch company, and the entire process will be televised in a Big Brother-style reality show 
 
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 Big Brother creator Römer says, 'When the Mars One founders first approached me, asking whether they could speak to me about a mission to Mars, my first response was 'these people are crazy. What can they do that NASA’s can’t?'
– Combine a Dutch Nobelist, the co-creator of Big Brother, and a Mars-obsessed company, and what do you get? A reality show that follows the creation of the first human colony on Mars, of course. Mars One, as the company is called, plans to send four people to the planet by 2023, adding to that group until the population hits 20 a decade later, the Daily Mail reports. The firm will fund the trip by making it "the biggest media event ever," it says. It all reportedly starts next year, when the future astronauts are selected and start training. The public will help choose the team, whose members "will share their experiences with us as they build their new home, conduct experiments, and explore Mars," notes the company, which has been in talks with aerospace companies since last year. Reality-TV honcho Paul Romer is on board for the project, which he calls a "one-way mission"; he joins Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft in supporting it. "Reality meets talent show with no ending and the whole world watching. Now there’s a pitch," Romer notes.