Mars One applicants
The first round in a world-wide search for astronauts willing to make a one way trip to colonize Mars ends on August 31. While the ambitious Mars One program has not released their officials application numbers yet, they said that over 100,000 potential martians have applied, including some 6,000 Canadians.
Mars One plans to put four humans on Mars sometime in the year 2023, sending subsequent missions up every two years afterward.
Here is a look at some of the crazy Canucks looking to put life on Mars:
Tyler Reyno
Connor Martz
Andrew Rader
Sean Davies
Justin Semenoff
Lex Marion
Kenneth Flack
Tyler Reyno
21, student, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
"All my life goals are oriented around going to space so the Mars One mission was a bit of blessing because it gave me an opportunity to do exactly what I wanted to do with my life."
Connor Martz
19, student, Walerloo, Ontario
"It started as a joke by my sister. She messaged me on facebook one day saying 'look now you can go somewhere and never come back,' it was a joke but I took it really seriously."
Andrew Rader
34, Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Ottawa, Ontario
"I'm a bit of a libertarian and I think space needs to pay for itself, and if a private company can do things more inexpensively and if it can bring in sources of revenues without taxpayers dollars then I'm all for it."
Sean Davies
46, medical laboratory technologist, Hodgson Manitoba
"Even if I am not selected I am still excited about the program because it means that in my lifetime I will see, either on television or the Internet, the first man on mars."
Justin Semenoff
34, Combat Engineer Canadian forces, Saskatoon, Sasaktchewan
"I'm a realist, I think just with the numbers themselves - by now there must be over 100,000. To say I have a shot, you know yeah, hopefully. But realistically it is going to be closer to winning the lottery."
Lex Marion
26, logistics coordinator, Vancouver
"My entire life I have always wanted to be a part of something that really makes a huge difference. Having my life mean something for me is just so important and this is the ultimate expression of that."
Kenneth Flack
53, retired aerospace executive, Pointe-Fortune, Quebec
"The perfect candidate for Mars One is a male individual, of stout nature, somewhat on the fat side, qualifying as a redneck and old."