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| Panorama of the Martian surface. [PHOTO: NASA] |
A mission to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars by 2024 just took another step closer to launch.
The Dutch non-profit Mars One which is organising the mission said it had selected 1,058 candidates from a pool of more than 200,000 applicants to enter the first round of testing before a final team is selected to make a one-way trip to Mars.
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