Introduction and part introductions 2016 Norbert Kraft, James R. Kass, and Raye Kass
Human Health and Performance for Mars Missions 2016 by Jamie R. Guined
How Filming Mars One Could Change the World 2016 by James R. Kass
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors wish to express their gratitude to all the Mars One candidates whose quotes have been used in these pages, including the following, who contributed thoughts to Age and Aging on Mars: Dan Carey , Ethan Dederick , Yuri Rafael Lopez Farias , Reginald Foulds , Laurel Helene Kaye , Mead McCormick , Dianne McGrath , Elaheh Nouri , Sue Ann Pien , Jaymee Orillosa Del Rosario , Etsuko Shimabukuro , Dr. Bhupendra Singh , Anastasiya Stepanova , and Kay Radzik Warren . We regret that time did not allow us to contact more. Interviews were conducted by Mars One Exchange writer Vincent Hyman , who also wrote up the interview results for this chapter.
The editors wish to thank Leah Wilson (editorin-chief) and Jessika Rieck (production associate) at BenBella Books for their hard work and patience throughout the journey this book took from draft to final copy.
The editors would also like to thank Stephen Cass , senior editor with Technology Review and founding editor of Discover magazines sci-fi blog Science Not Fiction, for his insightful advice and feedback on all things technological (and others too numerous to mention).
The editors would like to extend their profound thanks to Suzanne Flinkenflgel , Director of Communications for Mars One, whose expertise and incredible skill has made this book possible.
Thanks are due as well to Bryan Versteeg , the illustrator responsible for all the illustrations and animations on the Mars One website, for the outpost images used in this book. Thanks also to Olga Panifilova for creating the press release and advertisement images in A World Waiting to Be Born.
Finally, the editors would like to especially acknowledge Bas Lansdorp , cofounder and chief executive officer, and Arno Wielders , cofounder and chief technical officer, of Mars One. Without their innovation and willingness to push boundaries due to their passion for science and exploration, this book would have remained only in the minds and hearts of those whose words follow. Because of their vision of what could be, this book exists.
FOREWORD
A young man appeared in my office. Yes, he had made an appointment with my secretary to meet me. He had heard about my interest in futuristic applications of science and science fiction. He, and a few companions, had some rather bold ideas that he wanted to unfold for me, and he wanted to learn how I would react.
If you are in a field of science like mine, people with new ideas show up all the time. Those ideas are usually new and original indeed, but completely out of touch with the real world. Usually, they are based on hopelessly ill-informed perceptions of what real science and technology are about, and there is not much I can do for such people other than advise them to learn much more about what professionals have to say regarding the topics they are so thrilled about before bothering me again.
And here was a guy talking about human colonies on the planet Mars. The colonists would travel for approximately seven months from Earth to Mars, four people at a time, and they would stay there, keeping themselves alive as long as they were able, without the slightest glimmering of hope for a safe return home to Earth but ensured of eternal fame in the history of mankind.
The date: April 27, 2012.
The mans name: Bas Lansdorp.
All basic science you need already exists, he told me. All you need to do is some more research to combine it all. Use spacecraft designs that have already been made, scale them up a bit, and test them thoroughly. It would take just about ten years to prepare for the first colonists to go, according to his calculations, and the cost would be around 6 billion American dollars.
Now this, I thought, was entirely unrealistic. Its true that basic science did not put any fundamental obstacles in his way. In principle, all this was possible. But those numbers? Ten years? Six billion dollars? You better put an extra zero behind them, I said. Building a big particle accelerator already costs more, as do large railway projects, let alone the development of a new military aircraft.