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From: Snowshoe1/1/2014 1:20:37 AM
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Hello Earthlings! Happy 2014! Anyone looking for the ultimate escape? :o)

Last Frontier to final frontier: Former Alaskan in running for one-way trip to Mars

alaskadispatch.com

A New York City comedian and former Alaska broadcast journalist has been chosen as one of about 1,000 finalists for a Dutch-based plan to send people to colonize Mars. The initial list of people who applied for a one-way trip to the Red Planet contained more than 200,000 names. Former Fairbanks resident Lauren Reeves, 30, is among the “lucky” ones named to the list of semi-finalists, which was announced early Tuesday.

In 2015, Mars One -- the Dutch-based non-profit behind the idea -- will pick the six teams of four astronauts each that will be sent on the trip to Mars in staggered intervals. The first of the teams will begin making the trip to Mars in 2024 -- which Mars One estimates will take 210 days -- following years of training. The astronauts are expected to build and live in life support modules -- covered with Martian soil to protect them from radiation -- and eventually die there. The mission does not contain plans to bring any of the chosen applicants back to terra firma.


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