Go Hunt Life

Bas Lansdorp wants to colonize Mars and he’s looking for volunteers to ripcord out of their lives on Earth and go. He is building his company, Mars One, that will send the first 4 people to Mars in 14 years to build a new society but it’s a one-way ticket. The biggest challenge of the Mars One mission will be psychological. If you want to go to Mars, no problem you’re just never coming back. You’re going to live there for the rest of your life. So he’s been looking for future Mars settlers to date over 200,000 people have volunteered. In this episode we discuss... What drove Bas Lansdorp to found Mars One taking people on a one-way mission to Mars. How he has built non-profit and for-profit companies to provide revenue and a return back to investors. How much money does it take to get a spaceship to Mars? Receiving over 200,000 volunteers to go on the first mission. Why each mission will consist of a 4 person team? What are the top 3 challenges? Oxygen, food, gravity or something else. The physiological chall