An announcement from Mars One:

Mars One launch astronaut selection on Youtube and Twitter

AMERSFOORT, April 19th 2013 – Mars One will launch its Astronaut Selection Program on the 22nd of April 2013 at a press conference in New York. The event will be streamed live on Youtube.

The briefing will be moderated by Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor at the Planetary Society. The panel will include

• Bas Lansdorp, General Director and Co-Founder, Mars One
• Norbert Kraft, Medical Director, Mars One
• Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel laureate and Ambassador, Mars One
• Grant Anderson, Sr. VP Operations, Chief Engineer and Co-Founder, PParagon Space Development Corporation
• Bryan Versteeg, Mission Concept Artist, Mars One

Date and Time: 22nd April, starts 12:00 pm EDT ends 1:30 pm EDT

You can be a part of the Q&A by sending us your questions and opinions via Twitter by using the hashtag #MarsOneLaunch.

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About Mars One
Mars One is a not-for-profit organization that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023 through the integration of existing, readily available technology that can be purchased from the global private space industry. Mars One will fund this decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of an interactive, televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission- from launch to landing to living on Mars. In March 2013 Mars One contracted Paragon Space Development Corporation (USA) to take the first steps in developing the life support system and spacesuits fit for the mission. Mars One is in talks with various other aerospace companies for different components of the mission; a series of contracts will be announced later this year. This is a global mission: our advisers, suppliers and also would-be astronauts come from all over the world.

Mars One website www.mars-one.com
Mars One Introduction Film