Watch If I die on Mars: meet the people on a mission to be first on the red planet ... and stay there
- 10 min
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 leave Earth, and who are they leaving behind?