There will be life on Mars: Mission to create first human colony by 2023 - and it will be filmed for reality TV show 
 
 
 
 Seven-month mission to be financed by reality show on Earth 
 
 By 2033, there will be 20 people living on Mars 
 
 Mission backed by co-creator of Big Brother and Nobel-winning physicists 
 
 Reality show on Earth will finance mission 
 
 
 
 An independent space launch company aims to put four people on Mars by April 2023 - and the team will not be coming back. 
 
 Mars One claims that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars. 
 
 The company has been in talks with independent space suppliers such as Space X, which recently launched the first privately owned rocket to the Space Station. 
 
 
 
 Mars One claims that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars 
 
 The Dutch company is backed by a Nobel prize winning physicist, Gerard 't Hooft (pictured) - and also by Paul Romer, co-creator of Big Brother 
 
 The Dutch company is backed by a Nobel prize winning physicist, Gerard 't Hooft - and also by Paul Romer, co-creator of Big Brother. 
 
 The company aims to start training astronauts next year - and will turn the selection and training programme into a 'media event' similar to a reality show. 
 
 
 
 'We see this as a journey that belongs to us all, and it is for this reason that we will make every step one that we take together,' says the company. 
 
 'This will also be our way to finance the mission: the mission to Mars will be the biggest media event ever! 
 
 
 
 'The entire world will be able to watch and help with decisions as the teams of settlers are selected, follow their extensive training and preparation for the mission and of course observe their settling on Mars once arrived. The emigrated astronauts will share their experiences with us as they build their new home, conduct experiments and explore Mars.' 
 
 Mars One's plan has been in development since 2011. 
 
 
 
 The journey to Mars will take seven months, says the Dutch company, and the entire process will be televised in a Big Brother-style reality show 
 
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 In New York on Monday, a group of scientists and entrepreneurs launched a quixotic program that could allow you (yes you!) to make a trip to Mars. But you can't come back. 
 
 The Mars One nonprofit organization announced that it is now open to applicants interested in making a commercially sponsored one-way mission to Mars. 
 
 This isn't the first proposed Mars mission on the books. NASA has it as a long-term goal to send astronauts to the red planet. And space entrepreneur Dennis Tito recently announced plans to send a couple for a fly-by in 2018. 
 
 But Mars One stands apart in very important ways: First, it will strive to be self-financed by selling the astronaut selection process, launch and landing as a reality television show. Second, the lucky winners will live out their lives in an inflatable habitat on another planet. 
 
 "If somebody's an outdoors person who says, 'I need my mountains, I need to smell the flowers,' then it's not the mission for him," says Norbert Kraft, the group's chief medical officer. 
 
 Mars One co-founder Bas Lansdorp says that the idea of selling the trip as prime-time television really seemed doable after he saw the revenue numbers from the London Olympics. That event garnered more than $4 billion in just over three weeks, he says. With that in mind, the mission's $6 billion price tag "is actually a bargain." 
 
 In fact, there will be a lot more to watch than the launch and landing. Even today, visitors to the Mars One website can check out public videos from applicants and vote on who they like the most. Those liked more will be more likely to go on to the next round of astronaut selection. Future rounds will be televised: Participants in each nation will square off against each other with only a single participant making his or her way to years of training. That final round will be an internationally broadcast show in which six teams of four vie for the chance to get voted off of Earth. 
 
 It sounds crazy. But is it really crazier than shows about people who hunt alligators or drive trucks on roads of ice? Lansdorp says that he has consulted with Big Brother co-creator Paul Römer, who thinks that the show could work. Over the years, Lansdorp says, viewers will develop a close connection to the astronaut applicants. "That's why it will stay interesting for a very, very long time," he says. 
 
 Lansdorp says that his biggest worry at the moment is his ability to raise the money needed to send rovers and supplies to Mars in advance of the 2023 landing. But he hopes that the astronaut application process will help to raise money. "We are already receiving a lot of interest from [broadcasters]," he says. 
 
 The application itself might be a money-maker, too: It will cost U.S. residents $38 to put their name down for a one-way journey.
– Combine a Dutch Nobelist, the co-creator of Big Brother, and a Mars-obsessed company, and what do you get? A reality show that follows the creation of the first human colony on Mars, of course. Mars One, as the company is called, plans to send four people to the planet by 2023, adding to that group until the population hits 20 a decade later, the Daily Mail reports. The firm will fund the trip by making it "the biggest media event ever," it says. It all reportedly starts next year, when the future astronauts are selected and start training. The public will help choose the team, whose members "will share their experiences with us as they build their new home, conduct experiments, and explore Mars," notes the company, which has been in talks with aerospace companies since last year. Reality-TV honcho Paul Romer is on board for the project, which he calls a "one-way mission"; he joins Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft in supporting it. "Reality meets talent show with no ending and the whole world watching. Now there’s a pitch," Romer notes.