Mars One ‘hopelessly flawed’ says Irish finalist

An Irishman who is one of 100 finalists for the Mars One space mission has criticised the project, calling it a hopelessly flawed scheme that will inevitably fail.

Mars One, a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, has put forward plans to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2025.

Thousands of hopeful candidates applied, out of which 100 were shortlisted.