A small Dutch company which promised to establish a permanent colony on Mars, self-funding the unprecedented project with reality television deals, has been declared bankrupt.
The Mars One project was announced in 2012 with the aim of putting the first four humans on Mars in 2024. It claimed to have attracted interest from 200,000 peoplewho wanted to be selected as astronauts, with thousands paying a registration fee to be considered for one-way trips to Earths nearest planetary neighbour. The project attracted considerable interest from space exploration enthusiasts, despite the scientific community denouncing the project as completely unfeasible and even delu…
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