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Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars (edition 2016)

by Norbert Kraft (Editor), James R Kass (Editor), Raye Kass (Editor), Gerard ’t Hooft (Foreword)

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Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects. The next step in our great adventure is putting humans on Mars, but what will it really take to achieve this? In 2011, Mars One announced its intentions to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars beginning as early as 2024; in 2013 it launched its astronaut-selection program and received thousands of applications. The highly anticipated Mars One documentary series will provide a window into the captivating details of the crew selection and training process, allowing the whole world to follow along as Mars' first settlers prepare for their mission. Now, with Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure, you can step even further inside the experience of these astronaut pioneers and explore the various human dimensions of Mars One's planned expeditions. Edited by Norbert Kraft, MD, Mars One's Chief Medical Officer and head of crew selection and training, as well as crew selection and training committee members James R. Kass, PhD, and Raye Kass, PhD, this collection of essays from scientists, psychologists, and more provides a behind-the-scenes look at the process and criteria used to choose candidates, fascinating details about what they'll learn, and predictions about their future lives on Mars. Inside, you'll find in-depth discussions of: The essential skills and training the Mars One astronauts will need to journey to and then survive on Mars, from technical and medical know-how to the interpersonal skills necessary for working in confined quarters so far from home The challenges of going through the selection and training process while being watched by millions around the world, and what Mars One hopes watching the process will mean for viewers at home Inside information, including images, on the planned Mars One habitats and colonization timeline What settlers can expect on Mars, from daily work activities in a hostile environment to communication with Earth and options for leisure time The book also includes excerpts from candidate questionnaires, allowing readers to enter the minds of prospective Martians like never before.… (more)
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Title:Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars
Authors:Norbert Kraft (Editor)
Other authors:James R Kass (Editor), Raye Kass (Editor), Gerard ’t Hooft (Foreword)
Info:BenBella Books (2016), 240 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:****
Tags:mars, exploration, pioneer, settlement, space, space exploration

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Full Disclosure: I am in the Mars 100, one of the remaining candidates for the Mars One mission. I was interviewed for a portion of this book.

This is a book for those who perhaps are not interested in the rockets-and-hardware part of Mars One, but who are nonetheless curious about the mission in its more human dimensions. It is a collection edited and, in part, written by the members of the Mars One Selection Committee. The essays offer a professional examination into the skills and temperament that the Committee looks for in those volunteering to go on a one-way trip to create a settlement on Mars. The question is approached from various angles: psychological, sociological, medical, educational, etc.

I enjoyed most of the contributions and appreciated the variety of ways from which the human side of this endeavor were examined. There were essays in which I found myself wishing for more scientific and technical details. But I think the authors generally struck a good balance in providing professional insights written for a popular audience. I doubt anyone will be searching the Internet to explain many obscure technical terms.

The book includes an appendix laying out the Mars One mission roadmap and the timeline current as of the book's printing.

If you have questions about the Mars One mission or my candidacy to become a Martian settler, feel free to contact me here on Goodreads. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
First things first, the timetable given in this book for boots on the ground is wildly optimistic, and already dated, which is immediately deflating given its lofty ambitions. The title unfortunately amplifies this, as rest assured, there is no first human settlement on Mars to be "inside" of. That said, the book is a series of articles on what will be necessary to accomplish the goal of a Mars colony, and they largely fall into the psychological and physical requirements. The huge problems we will encounter (radiation on the journey and destination, muscle atrophy in a lower gravity, cost) are largely glossed over as problems for the future, which would be fine if the clock wasn't already ticking in the books timetable. For example, one author postulates a reality TV show to help defray the costs--seriously, it's going to cost tens of billions of dollars to do this, you're not going to pay for it with a TV show. There are some interesting insights here, and some fine imagination, but this is not a nuts and bolts book on colonizing another planet. I could have done without the puffy quotes from all the applicants as well, they mostly read like college entrance essays. I got this as an ebook for $3, so I can't call it a waste of money--but if you're interested in ideas for colonizing Mars, I would instead recommend Frank Crossman Mars Colonies: Plans for Settling the Red Planet, a 700 page collection of actual plans submitted for colonizing the planet, submitted by various groups in competition, published in 2019, also available as an ebook. ( )
  unclebob53703 | May 10, 2021 |
This book is a fairly lightweight collection of essays from the now dead Mars One Project. If you are after a deeper dive on the technicalities of living on Mars, the books "The Case for Mars" and "How we will live on Mars" by Robert Zubrin are considerably better. The discussion on Law and Society are OK, although the entire law section could be summed up with "the UN has a detailed plan, that no-one who owns a rocket has agreed to" and the details of the selection process are fairly interesting in retrospect with some historical detail from experiments in Russia and experiences in Arctic exploration. It's a very optimistic book but some of the ideas are just daft and you can see how it all fell apart. ( )
  jms429 | Jun 6, 2020 |
A fascinating account of an experiment to maybe colonise Mars in the future, which began in 2013.
This documents the training and psychological tests that the would be astronauts experienced to see if they were suitable to see if they were suitable to survive the journey and eventually begin a new Life on Mars. ( )
  Welsh_eileen2 | Feb 13, 2016 |
Even if you’ve flown economy across the Pacific on that horrendous 20 hour flight, you still can’t imagine a seven month flight to Mars. First you audition. You and 203 thousand others. Then you train, for ten years. Finally, you travel to Mars, about 15 years after you paid the initial application fee. When you arrive, (in your zero gravity-weakened state) you have to set up shelters and systems you can’t survive without. Oh, and it’s a one way trip. There is no return craft or fuel, and if you’ve lived on Mars any length of time, your organs couldn’t cope with the pressures and gravity of Earth. And the punchline? This is a televised reality show. Not with idiotic tests and diversions. You can’t be voted out and sent home from Mars. Nobody wins a million. And there is (blissfully) no confessional. But everything you and say and do will be edited into a package the whole world will watch – until you die.

From this uncomfortable scenario many questions arise. Enough to fill a book. This book.

Mars One is a well-designed book, with chapters by true experts from the company. They tackle space travel, life on Mars, physiological changes and problems from prolonged weightlessness followed by the weak gravity and high radiation of Mars. Also the equipment and furnishings, how to keep from getting depressed or going crazy, and how to prepare to run out your life with 23 people on another planet. Mars One has it covered. If you’re into space travel, this is as close to real as it gets.

The company doing it is nothing if not thorough. They will send landers ahead to test them and deliver equipment. They will launch satellites to provide internet service – albeit with a seven minute delay. Rovers will scout for the best place to set up. Everyone will train on systems, mechanics, electronics, fitness and medicine. And there will be an endless stream of experiments to keep them busy when they aren’t farming and searching for water, their primary duties.

With all the social angles seemingly covered, I was surprised they did not deal with race and religion. Putting together a diverse group that would spend their entire lives crammed into a smallish, mostly underground space, race and religion would seem to be instant igniters. There is also no speculation on what will happen when one of them emerges as their leader – whether they want it or not. Humans have that proclivity and it needs to be addressed, even if this starts out as a commune. They seem to have tested for every other possible compatibility factor. Twelve men and twelve women. All educations, all disciplines, a wide range of ages. People people who are tolerant and giving. They even tackle the legality of colonizing Mars - though not discipline within the camp. And there is no mention of lessons from the ill-fated Biosphere II.

Personally, I think the biggest development and enabler for living on Mars is the 3D printer. The biggest problem on Mars will be redundancy, or rather the lack of it. If something fails, you must wait two years for a replacement. 3D printers can replicate almost anything, including 3D printers. Thanks to this one invention, suddenly space colonies are possible.

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  DavidWineberg | Dec 12, 2015 |
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Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects. The next step in our great adventure is putting humans on Mars, but what will it really take to achieve this? In 2011, Mars One announced its intentions to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars beginning as early as 2024; in 2013 it launched its astronaut-selection program and received thousands of applications. The highly anticipated Mars One documentary series will provide a window into the captivating details of the crew selection and training process, allowing the whole world to follow along as Mars' first settlers prepare for their mission. Now, with Mars One: Humanity's Next Great Adventure, you can step even further inside the experience of these astronaut pioneers and explore the various human dimensions of Mars One's planned expeditions. Edited by Norbert Kraft, MD, Mars One's Chief Medical Officer and head of crew selection and training, as well as crew selection and training committee members James R. Kass, PhD, and Raye Kass, PhD, this collection of essays from scientists, psychologists, and more provides a behind-the-scenes look at the process and criteria used to choose candidates, fascinating details about what they'll learn, and predictions about their future lives on Mars. Inside, you'll find in-depth discussions of: The essential skills and training the Mars One astronauts will need to journey to and then survive on Mars, from technical and medical know-how to the interpersonal skills necessary for working in confined quarters so far from home The challenges of going through the selection and training process while being watched by millions around the world, and what Mars One hopes watching the process will mean for viewers at home Inside information, including images, on the planned Mars One habitats and colonization timeline What settlers can expect on Mars, from daily work activities in a hostile environment to communication with Earth and options for leisure time The book also includes excerpts from candidate questionnaires, allowing readers to enter the minds of prospective Martians like never before.

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