Five candidates have been selected to travel to MARS in 2024 – and they can’t come back.
They’ll have 10 years to prepare, and the production company behind Big Brother is reportedly planning to turn their training into a reality show.
Just incase you didn’t know: Mars is around 294 million miles away from Planet Earth, temperatures there can drop to minus 90C and the gravity is only one third as strong as it is here.
It will take the ‘lucky’ five seven months to travel to their new home, and one insists she is ‘happy to die’ on the Red Planet.
Maggie Lieu, 24, told the Metro: “May family and friends are really supportive. I have been flooded with messages from everyone telling me how proud they are.
“I liked this one in particular: ‘You always said you would be an astronaut, very inspirational. Good luck with everything hun’.
“My mum was skeptical at first but it’s getting more real every day. I’m her only daughter so we have quite a close bond, but she is so proud and happy for me finally making my dream come true.”
And Maggie wants to give birth on Mars, adding: “I think it would be really exciting to be the mother of the first ever baby born there.
“No one has done research on giving birth in low gravity so it is a risk. In order to establish a colony on Mars, reproduction is inevitable and essential. I’m curious to know the impact it will have on our knowledge of pregnancy in space.”
Maggie and the other four candidates will now spend 10 years learning how to survive in Mars. They will receive training for medical, dentistry, agriculture and repairs."