A rendering of the journey from the Mars One website.
Mars One, a one-way trip to Mars funded by advertising and sponsorship from a global reality TV show, sounds like fiction. But Dutch founder Bas Lansdorp assured Business Insider that the ambitious plan is not a hoax, despite the skepticism the project has faced since it was first announced last year.
Just two weeks after Mars One announced the opening of the astronaut selection program, 78,000 people have already applied for the trip, a response that surprised Lansdorp, the entrepreneur told us in a phone interview.
It's a $38 fee to apply, and in addition to filling out several online forms, participants must make a short video describing their sense of humor and, more importantly, why they want to live on Mars.
So far the organization has had applicants from over 120 countries, including 17,324 from the United States and 10,241 from China.
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