Mars One shortlist: five Britons among 100 would-be astronauts
by Ian Sample, science editor from on (#37JC)
More than 200,000 people applied to join the proposed one-way Mars One project, aiming to set up a permanent human colony
An Oxford physicist who can recall 90 digits of the mathematical entity pi is among five Britons to make the shortlist of would-be astronauts for a proposed one-way trip to Mars.
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