Recently during one of leadership sessions there was a mention of how strategic John F Kennedy was when he spoke about landing man on moon.Kennedy indeed was and he had set the direction on 25th May 1961 with the following speech "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish"
Fifty years hence we are now looking at another such dream- A one way ticket to Mars.The idea is to go back to where it all began with the theory being that life started on Mars and came to earth on a rock as the prime material had to be highly oxidised for life to began and Earth back then had very little oxygen while Mars had enough oxygen.
In other words when someone states "Men are from Mars" they are probably right. So if 3 billion years ago we came from Mars on a one way ticket and left nothing behind in mars maybe it is indeed correct that we go back on a one way ticket Now this Mars One program opened in the month of April asked for interested applicants and the response inspite of its modest fee(USD 38) was staggering at 1.65 lakh applicants.
Finally of this a group of four would actually land foot in Mars in 2023 and four more a few years later. The trip to mars is by itself daunting 200 days in a rocket living on canned food and then living on a planet with only 3 other people for company...No work.. No play...No shopping malls...No TV... No Car... No Roads...No Noise...No Ipods and No CELL phones.... At this point, and considering the fact that I was not one of the applicants, we get to watch this whole thing on TV as this would be part of a reality show. Happy viewing to all.
