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Space Exploration as Reality Show: 1000 chosen for Private Mars Colonization Mission

Juan Cole 01/03/2014

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(By AFP>

More than 1,000 chosen for one-way Mars reality-TV mission (via AFP)

More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be…

 

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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