If I die on Mars | Guardian Docs

Meet the people who’ve volunteered to be on the first manned mission to Mars ... and stay there. Subscribe to The Guardian ► Three volunteers are on the shortlist to be among four people on the Mars One programme, the first manned space flight to Mars – a one-way trip that’s effectively a suicide mission. A physics student in the UK, a young doctor from Mozambique and an Iraqi-American woman, all happy to sacrifice their futures for a place in history. Why do they want to leav