Over 600 Chinese have applied to join an ambitious Dutch aerospace
project that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars for
permanent settlement.
The Dutch project, while triggering enthusiasm to explore outer space,
is also under fire with the trip being viewed by some as a suicide
mission, with applicants being shipped to a planet that is uninhabitable
by humans.
The project, Mars One, is being launched by a Dutch non-profit
organisation, and is scheduled to take four humans to the Red Planet in
2023.
In the first three days after it was launched this week, over 20,000
people from all over the world submitted their applications online, with
more than 600 coming from China,...........
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