The Mars One selection committee will set up group dynamic challenges and provide study materials related to the challenges. This will allow the Mars One selection committee to observe how the candidates work in a group setting. I can’t reveal the specific challenges, since the selection process involves candidates learning to solve problems as a team but as an example, the Mars One selection committee might blindfold a group of people and tell the group that the goal is to make a perfect triangle. The Mars One selection committee then observes how the candidates solve the problem as a team. How did candidates decide to proceed? How did candidates organize themselves into a team? How did candidates handle the conflicts that inevitably emerge while facing the challenge? Personality characteristics become transparent during this process. The Mars One selection committee will observe all of this and debrief candidates afterward. Every day 10-20 candidates will be selected out.

This process will play out over five days, and from our observations we will be able to screen the Mars 100 to 40 potential candidates. These candidates will begin the isolation part of the screening process, which will take place over another nine days. Prior to the isolation, candidates will have to consider and prepare some basic facts about themselves and their personal preferences. On a long voyage and in a permanent settlement, people in a small group can’t hide or avoid each other. They will have 24 hours a day to annoy each other! This means simple things matter quite a bit—for example, whether you could be very bothered by dirty socks on the floor, dirty dishes in the sink, or body odor. Little things become a big deal and people can’t hold frustration in during a space voyage or a lifetime in a small settlement. The key point here is that there are no bad team members, but thereare team members who fit better than others, and we and the candidates need to get the right team members together.

In the isolation unit they will study material related to the final challenge that is coming up for the teams in isolation. They will then face multiple challenges, including tests on the material they’ve studied, because this is part of what the final Mars 24 candidates will be doing over the next 10 years. The results of the challenge will help us select down to 30 candidates, and these candidates will undergo the Mars Settler Suitability Interview (MSSI), which measures suitability for long duration Space missions and Mars settlement. The MSSI includes but is not limited to the following topics: teamwork and group living skills, motivation, family issues, performance under stressful and unique working conditions, and judgement and decision making. The interview will last for 4 hours and will be video recorded for analyses by the Selection Committee. 24 candidates will be selected after the MSSI and offered a full-time employment contract to begin training for the next 10 years.

One way ticket to Mars

Many people want to go to mars via mars one project.

• How is this possible?
• Will the astronauts come back?
• How will the astronauts prepare for a life on Mars?
• What will the journey from Earth to Mars be like?
• What will it be like to live on Mars?

Emigration to Mars

A one way trip has obvious technical advantages, but what does this mean for the astronauts themselves? That depends on who you ask. You could say that most people would rather lose a leg than live the rest of their life on a cold, hostile planet, having said goodbye to friends and family forever, the best possible video call suffering from a seven minute delay—one way.

However, there are individuals for whom traveling to Mars has been a dream for their entire life. They relish the challenge. Not unlike the ancient Chinese, Micronesians, and untold Africans, the Vikings and famed explorers of Old World Europe, who left everything behind to spend the majority of their lives at sea, a one-way mission to Mars is about exploring a new world and the opportunity to conduct the most revolutionary research ever conceived, to build a new home for humans on another planet.

So we need smart healthy people to make it not those who want to go because they are depressed and stressed out in earth. Not those who have more imagination than ht e brain matter itself and thinking ability. Those who want to go must understand the facts in mars .

Years of Training

Before they leave the Earth’s atmosphere to travel to Mars, each astronaut will be put through the required eight years of training. The teams will be isolated from the world for a few months every year in simulation facilities, to learn how they respond to living in close quarters while isolated from all humans except for their crew members.

In addition to the expertise and work experience they must already possess, they have to learn quite a few new skills: physical and electrical repairs to the settlement structures, cultivating crops in confined spaces, and addressing both routine and serious medical issues such as dental upkeep, muscle tears and bone fractures.

The Journey to Mars

The flight will take between about 242 days (depending upon the relative positions of the Earth and Mars). The astronauts will spend those seven months together in a very small space—much smaller than the home base at the settlement on Mars—devoid of luxury or frills. This will not be easy. Showering with water will not be an option. Instead the astronauts make do with wet towelettes (wet wipes) as used by astronauts on the International Space Station.

Freeze dried and canned food is the only option. There will be constant noise from the ventilators, computer and life support systems, and a regimented routine of 3 hours daily exercise in order to maintain muscle mass. So those people with IBS ,bowel problems and other health issues will not make it.

If the astronauts are hit by a solar storm, they must take refuge in the even smaller, sheltered area of the rocket which provides the best protection, for up to several days. The solar storm is dangerous ,and can also effect the technical gadgets.

The journey will be arduous, pressing each of them to the very limits of their training and personal capacity..

Life on Mars

Once they arrive on Mars, the astronauts will begin making use of their relatively spacious living units; over 50 m2 per person, and a total of more than 200 m2 combined interior space.

Within the settlement are inflatable components which contain bedrooms, working areas, a living room and a ‘plant production unit’, where they will grow greenery. They will also be able to shower as normal, prepare fresh food (that they themselves grew and harvested) in the kitchen, so not fat people will be going , and those who want to eat meat all the time they have to think hard before they join.

If the astronauts leave the settlement, they have to wear a Mars Suit. However, all living spaces are connected by passageways, in order for the astronauts to move freely from one end of the settlement to the other. As the rovers have done much of the heavy construction prior to their arrival, it will not take the astronauts a long time to find routine in their new life, moving into carrying out valuable construction works and research. So you need to be smart not just passionate and dreamer , this is not a picnic trip.

Construction & Research

Several new components will be delivered to Mars while the first group of four astronauts are settled. In preparation of the arrival of the second group of four astronauts, the components will include a second living unit and a second life support unit. With use of the rovers, the astronauts will connect these units to the main base. When this task has been performed, the first crew has prepared the settlement for the arrival of additional astronauts, and, in the meantime, the astronauts will enjoy more room for themselves and extra safety as the duplicate living environments provide back-up life support systems.

When the second crew of astronauts lands, the first crew will have already applied technology and physical labor to the construction of additional living and working spaces, using local materials. Mars One is working on concepts, such as the inclusion of tunnels and domes made from compressed Martian soil, which may be able to hold a breathable atmosphere for the astronauts to live in.

There will be a great deal of research conducted on Mars. The astronauts will research how their bodies respond and change when living in a 38% gravitational field, and how food crops and other plants grow in hydroponic plant production units. Research will include extra-settlement exploration to learn about the ancient and current geology on Mars. Of course, much research will be dedicated to the determination if life was once present or now exists on Mars.

Reports from Mars

The astronauts will not only submit routine reports, but will also share all that they enjoy and find challenging. It will give the people on Earth a unique and personal insight view of life on Mars. They could answer intriguing questions like: What is it like to walk on Mars? How do you feel about your fellow astronauts after a year? What is it like living in the reduced Mars’ gravity? What is your favorite food? Do you enjoy the sunsets on Mars?

Future Expansion

A new group of four astronauts will land on Mars every two years, steadily increasing the settlement’s size. Eventually, a living unit will be built from local materials, large enough to grow trees. As more astronauts arrive, the creativity applied to settlement expansion will certainly give way to ideas and innovation that we cannot conceive now. But we can expect the human spirit to continue to persevere, to even thrive in this challenging environment.

Babies will be born for sure as men and women join this voyage.

My advice to the committee ( please do not take any fanatics on board we don’t need another ISIS , or KKK on the planet. Make sure that those who will go have a strong beak round in science, engineering, farming know how, tools and fixing, electricity and solar power, first aid and emergency treatment, public health and infection control knowledge, radio and shortwave communication, electronic and electric engineers, and construction knowledge, with open mind to new possibility.

Surface of MARS

The surface of Mars is dry and barren, so don’t forget lot lotion. Mars has many volcanoes on it. Mars also has a lot of impact craters, which is what makes it like the moon. Most of Mars’ craters are on the south hemisphere so if you want a smooth surface to stay you might want to stay in the north hemisphere. The reason why the north hemisphere is so smooth is because it has been smoothed out by volcanic activity.

Volcanoes

Do you like volcanoes? Well Mars has 20 large named volcanoes and many more! The volcanoes on mars may still be active but very few if any. Are you tired of the volcanoes on Earth, because they can get boring? The volcanoes on Mars are much larger than the ones on Earth, and I promise you they will never get boring!

Materials

Mars is not the same as Earth. Mars is not made of the same materials as Earth so it doesn’t look the same. Mars is red if your favorite color is red then you will love it here at Mars. Mars is red because the surface sand is made of iron oxide. The core is different it is made of iron and sulfur.

Water

Mars has had water on it in the past. It may have water now but if it doesn’t we fly endless amounts of water there every day. Scientist have found a “Plaster of Paris” which is a mineral that is deposited by water so it couldn’t be there unless there was once water on Mars. SO IF NO WATER WILL BE FOUND IT IS THE END OF THIS MISSION.

Valley/Mountains

Mars has many uplifted planes. There is a large canyon across the surface of Mars called Valles Marineris. There are thousands of craters and hundreds of them have names. The largest crater on Mars is the Hellas Basin (2,100 km wide and 9 km deep in some places). Olympus Mons is the largest mountain in the Solar System (24 km tall). There is a giant ice cap on the top of Mars. The polar cap is about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across.

The planet Mars is fairly modest, as spaceports go. There are only five active satellites in orbit there.

But that doesn’t mean collisions are impossible. And because Mars missions are so massively expensive, NASA doesn’t want to take any unnecessary chances with the orbiters that have managed to get there, and survive.

So, in a lovely piece of forward-thinking mathematical prudence, air traffic control at the red planet is being re-thought and upgraded, in anticipation of busier times to come.

“As long as we’ve had multiple assets in orbit there, we’ve always kept track between the different navigation teams of where they are, and if there’s any proximity issues,” said Robert Shotwell, chief engineer of the Mars program for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

“As we get more and more spacecraft there, the overall density goes up.”

Two new craft entered Mars’ orbit in the past year – both taking non-typical elliptical orbits which can and do cross the paths of satellites taking more traditional, circular routes. Any time orbits intersect, catastrophic collisions are possible.

Of particular note is MAVEN, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe.

“MAVEN is in a highly elliptical orbit, and at higher inclination as well,” Shotwell explained.

“That’s intended to allow the opportunity for the periapse (low point of the orbit) to go down into the atmosphere. Many of its instruments actually sample the atmosphere.”

It ducks into the Martian air, takes a sniff, and rises back out. But every time it does this, its speed and orbit are altered. And there’s no way to predict my how much.

“If we get a projection of satellites coming within a couple of kilometers, we look at both proximity potential and timing potential,” Shotwell said.

“The orbits could cross at exactly the same point, but if one orbiter gets there ten minutes in front of the other one, then there’s no possibility of a collision.”

Another problem is that, even travelling at the speed of light, a navigation command signal from Earth can take up to 20 minutes to reach the red planet. That makes it vitally important to plan ahead.

“If there’s a ‘red event’ – where they intersect – then we start tracking them more closely,” he said,

“If we get a week or so away and it looks like it’s getting even tighter, then we might start discussions about doing a manoeuvre.”

Shotwell concedes that with so few satellites orbiting such a large planet, the chances of collision are slim. But he stresses that this won’t last.

“There’s a lot of countries that are proposing missions to Mars,” he noted.

“There’s a lot of commercial interest in going to Mars. There is the NASA plan to send humans, and all the precursor missions that go with it. We could have dozens of assets active at Mars in the next 20 or 30 years. We’re trying to just build up a process, so that as all these future missions happen, we’ll be able to easily plug them in to our process, and make sure that everybody’s part of our larger community when we get to Mars.” 

How to keep humans alive on Mars

The ECLSS will primarily supply the future astronauts with clean air and water while recycling wastes. This will create a healthy and comfortable atmosphere within the habitat. The functions of the ECLSS are distributed across its five primary systems:

• The Atmosphere Management System (AMS) controls carbon dioxide, produces oxygen via the electrolysis of waters, detects fires, controls the pressures of different atmospheric gases, controls the air temperature, and monitors overall air quality;
• The in-situ Resource Processing System (ISRPS) provides two main functions, namely water recovery from Martian regolith (soil) and nitrogen/argon production from the Martian atmosphere;
• The Wet Waste Processing System (WWPS) isolates human generated wet waste (such as urine) and extracts purified (but non-drinkable) water that is subsequently processed by the WMS for use by the crew;
• The Water Management System (WMS) collects non-drinkable water from the ISRPS, WWPS, and excess humidity in the habitat atmosphere and purifies it to produce clean water for drinking, food preparation, and hygiene;
• The Thermal Control System (TCS) balances the heat generated by the crew and electrical devices with losses to the surroundings while maintaining the crew and the equipment within an acceptable temperature range.

ENJOY YOUR TRIP WITH MARS ONE. I hope there will be no mars attack on earth if this trip is hijacked by fanatics.DO You imagine CNN News . LOL.

Steve Ramsey, PhD

Calgary, Alberta- Canada