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Five South Africans Selected for round 3 of Kamikaze Mars Mission

Five South Africans have made it on to the shortlist of 100 candidates being considered for the Mars One space programme. Mars One is a private Dutch spaceflight endeavour which aims to launch a colony on Mars by 2023 Initally, more than 200 500 people applied to be trained as astronauts to stay on Mars. Mars One aims to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet. Funding for the project has come from crowd-sourcing, merchandise sales and TV rights.

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