How prepared are the Indians shortlisted for the Mars One project?
Hindustan Times | Atisha Jain
May 10, 2015 02:39 PM IST
It’ll take true courage to blast off from Earth in the hope of colonising Mars, knowing there will be no return. How prepared are the Indians shortlisted for the Mars One project?
Ritika Singh remembers the ping from her inbox that warm afternoon in April, 2012. Her colleague had sent everybody a mail about a trip. The 29-year-old Dubai-based logistics and supply-chain manager working with a retail company, laughed. "A trip to Mars?" she joked with her co-workers. "Why not! Next, there will be a trip to Pluto! This is ridiculous."
But the thought of going to Mars, however insane it sounded, stayed with Ritika. And so she applied to Mars One, a private, Netherlands-based, not-for-profit foundation, for a trip to the red planet. It aims to blast off from Earth in 2024 and start a human colony in Mars.
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