{"id":1405,"date":"2016-12-08T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2016-12-08T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:39:43","slug":"mars-one-puts-back-planned-colonisation-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/mars-one-puts-back-planned-colonisation-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars One puts back planned colonisation of Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British-Dutch company planning to install a community of humans on Mars admitted on Wednesday that it\u2019s project will be delayed by several years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Mars One consortium said its first manned mission to the Red Planet would now not happen until 2031, having previously targeted 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Its first unmanned mission has also been delayed by four years to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The delays are due to a \u201cnew financial strategy\u201d linked to Mars One\u2019s sale to Swiss financial services company InFin Innovative Finance AG, which was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Mars One consists of two entities: British public limited company Mars One Ventures and the Dutch not-for-profit Mars One Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Mars One\u2019s controversial project aims to send pioneering colonisers on one-way trips to the Red Planet to set up a permanent human settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Some 200,000 hopefuls from 140 countries initially signed up for the project, which is to be partly funded by a reality television show.<\/p>\n<p>Those have now been whittled down to just 100, out of whom 24 will be selected to make the seven-month voyage of no return.<\/p>\n<p>The chosen candidates, who will leave Earth in six groups of four, will have to find water, produce oxygen and cultivate their own food.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the only NASA missions to explore Mars have been unmanned.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is currently working on three Mars missions with the European Space Agency and plans to send another rover to Mars in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But NASA has no plans for a manned mission to Mars until the 2030s.&#8211;<em>AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Image: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British-Dutch company planning to install a community of humans on Mars admitted on Wednesday that it\u2019s project will be delayed by several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}