MarsOne

MarsOne is a project was a Dutch firm which plans to colonize Mars by 2023. The firm plans to send four astronauts to the Red Planet to start operations by 2022. MarsOne, founded by a Dutch energy entrepreneur, claimed that a new crew of four will join every two years as the explorers build their settlement, and that by 2033 there will be 20 people living on Mars. But the astronauts, it said, have to be committed to the project as they will never be able to come back to Earth. The project is backed by Nobel prize winning physicist Gerard’t Hooft.