Becky anderson, cnn anchor
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| undergo eight years of intensive training, isolated from the rest of the world, learning to live in close spaces. They’ll take off in their mission in 2022. No human has ever stepped foot on the red planet. It could be you.
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR Well, establishing life on Mars has long been a dream of the project’s co-founder, Bas Lansdrop. He’s in New York announcing the start of the application process, and he joins us now from our bureau there. Is this really a possibility? BAS LANSDROP, CO-FOUNDER, MARS ONE Yes. What Mars One has done is create a mission that’s possible with current technology, and the one-way mission aspect is really what makes it possible. It’s the return mission that’s currently not possible. But we have the technology to put man on Mars and keep him alive there. B  ECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR
W BAS LANSDROP, CO-FOUNDER, MARS ONE It’s because the rockets that we currently have are not big enough to send the rocket for the return mission to Mars. It would be putting a rocket inside a rocket. So, you can imagine you would need a really big one. Well, first of all, you would have to go to our Web site and apply. Then our experts will review your profile. They will review you candidacy. You could pass to round number two if they think that you’re good enough. T  hen’ in round number two, you will meet the selection committee. Then you go to round number three, the national series, where we will really see who are the right people from each country to go.
And finally, there’s an international series, where we will make groups of people, because we’ll be sending groups to Mars. That’s the most important thing. They need to be groups that can cooperate very well together.
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hy can’t you bring him back, then, out of interest?