Submission + - Mars One Delayed 2 Years, CEO releases video in response to criticism (astrowatch.net)
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The private colonization project Mars One has pushed its
planned launch of the first humans toward the Red Planet
back by two years, to 2026.
The delay was necessitated by a lack of investment funding,
which has slowed work on a robotic precursor mission that
Mars One had wanted to send toward the Red Planet in
2018, Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp said in a new video
posted today... "We had a very successful investment round in 2013 that
has financed all the things that we have done up to now.
And we have actually come to an agreement with a
consortium of investors late last year for a much bigger
round of investments. Unfortunately, the paperwork of that
deal is taking much longer than we expected," Lansdorp Lansdorp said in the video.
This Astrowatch article is a lot more scathing and to the point " Mars One, the Dutch company planning to send people on a
one-way trip to Mars, that recently selected a group of 100
hopefuls, struggles with criticism. In a Medium story this
week, Mars One finalist Joseph Roche presented multiple
reasons as to why he believed the entire operation is a
complete scam. In response, the company published a
video Thursday in which Bas Lansdorp, CEO and Co-
founder of Mars One, replies to recent criticism concerning
the feasibility of Mars One's human trip to Mars. He also
revealed that the mission will be delayed for two years.
Roche said that the “only way” to get selected for the next
round of the Mars One candidacy process was to donate
money. “My nightmare about it is that people continue to
support it and give it money and attention, and it then gets
to the point where it inevitably falls on its face,” Roche told
Elmo Keep for Medium."
The private colonization project Mars One has pushed its
planned launch of the first humans toward the Red Planet
back by two years, to 2026.
The delay was necessitated by a lack of investment funding,
which has slowed work on a robotic precursor mission that
Mars One had wanted to send toward the Red Planet in
2018, Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp said in a new video
posted today... "We had a very successful investment round in 2013 that
has financed all the things that we have done up to now.
And we have actually come to an agreement with a
consortium of investors late last year for a much bigger
round of investments. Unfortunately, the paperwork of that
deal is taking much longer than we expected," Lansdorp Lansdorp said in the video.
This Astrowatch article is a lot more scathing and to the point " Mars One, the Dutch company planning to send people on a
one-way trip to Mars, that recently selected a group of 100
hopefuls, struggles with criticism. In a Medium story this
week, Mars One finalist Joseph Roche presented multiple
reasons as to why he believed the entire operation is a
complete scam. In response, the company published a
video Thursday in which Bas Lansdorp, CEO and Co-
founder of Mars One, replies to recent criticism concerning
the feasibility of Mars One's human trip to Mars. He also
revealed that the mission will be delayed for two years.
Roche said that the “only way” to get selected for the next
round of the Mars One candidacy process was to donate
money. “My nightmare about it is that people continue to
support it and give it money and attention, and it then gets
to the point where it inevitably falls on its face,” Roche told
Elmo Keep for Medium."
