This Nevada-based architect sees preparation for the colonization of Mars as an escape from the “mundanities of life,” but that doesn’t mean she thinks it will be easy. And the biggest challenges could be psychological.
Would you travel to Mars if it meant staying forever? To some, a one-way ticket to another planet might sound daunting—but when Mars One, a European and American venture aiming to send human settlers to one of Earth’s closest neighbors, put out its first call for applicants in 2013, it received thousands of responses. In this series of doc shorts, we meet five Mars One finalists eager to become the first extraterrestrial emigrants.