Mars One wants to build a colony that will be able to grow with an ever-expanding crew.
Although dubious about the funding, the technology and the impact of radiation, Love applauds small enterprises like Mars One.
Mars One intends for a second crew to join the first one in 2025, and more will follow regularly.
The Mars One plan has incredibly tight timings - possibly unrealistically tight.
Mars One wants to build a colony on the red planet and grow the colony with an ever-expanding crew and sustain their lives where no one has lived before.
But if Mars One is televising the whole thing, that would at least be good for ratings, allowing the company to earn enough money to send more teams out there.
The preferred rocket, Falcon Heavy, has to yet to be tested by its makers, SpaceX, even though the Mars One plan calls for the first demonstration flight to land on Mars in 2016.
Meanwhile, another communications system only made possible by the Web - Twitter - focused on the apparently appealing notion of using Mars One to rid the Earth of various people - usually politicians.
And in perhaps the week's oddest story, the Dutch nonprofit Mars One announced that it is now accepting applications for a four-person Mars colony with hopes of establishing a permanent settlement on the Red Planet.
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We discussed that question with Melissa Ede, who describes herself as a transgender woman, and has signed up as a contender to be selected for the Mars One mission - "failure isn't in my vocabulary", she told us before the webcast.
Some scientists suspect Mars once sheltered primitive, bacteria-like organisms and previous missions found evidence Mars at one time boasted ample quantities of water.
Veronica Mars was one of those shows, like Freaks and Geeks and Firefly, that found a dedicated following of fans but never really scored in the ratings department.
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"Perhaps one day a student selected for the Red Rover Goes To Mars project will become one of the first astronauts to actually land on Mars itself, " Glenn said.
Mars is more like Earth than any other place in the known universe, and while astronomers now believe there may be millions of earth-like planets in our galaxy, Mars is the only one that is within reach.
Better, say the doubters, to spend the money on scientific missions, such as Hubble's successors, and leave exploration to the kind of robotic missions that have successfully roved about on the surfaces of Mars and Titan, one of Saturn's moons.
One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.
But it sees a lot more of the poles than of any other part of Mars, and it was one of those poles, the north, that Dr Zuber was discussing.
Four year ago, Ira, during the first Mars Scout competition, we were one of the four finalists, and eventually NASA selected Phoenix.
Having written the rover simulation, driven Opportunity for three years, and practiced in the Mars Yard, Tompkins was at one with her software.
His 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, is widely regarded as one of the most influential albums in rock history.
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The organisers have not stated how much the mission will cost nor how much they need to raise, saying only that it is much cheaper than one would imagine a Mars mission to be.
Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
And if they see a big one on their way to Mars, they might give it a nudge!
With respect to a manned, one-way mission to Mars, I suspect such questions will fall on deaf ears.
The Curiosity rover has, however, checked in on Foursquare on Mars, which is a feat no one else is likely to attempt.
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In place of a plan crafted by his predecessor which might have one day carried astronauts to Mars, Mr. Obama has proposed a science fair that literally goes nowhere.
"I think the range of science questions that are there, and the methodologies and types of vehicle that we use to address that science, is going to follow very much the Mars model - we'll have one mission building on the success of another and exploring different questions, " he told BBC News.
No one knows what went wrong with Mars Polar Lander and scientists still hope for a miracle.
Bacteria are not known for their ability to stir the imagination, but there is at least one reliable exception: bacteria from Mars.
The hope the one that propels all missions to Mars is to find a set of conditions that would allow living creatures to survive.
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