Sheffield student eyes one-way trip to Mars
An astrophysics student in Sheffield has been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars.
Gillian Finnerty applied with 265,000 others to set up a human colony on the red planet.
Mars explorer: I want to inspire the next generation
An astrophysics student in Sheffield has been shortlisted for a one-way trip to Mars.
Gillian Finnerty applied with 265 thousand others to set up a human colony on the red planet.
Now she is on of just 40 from the UK who have been chosen to go through to the next stage of the selection process for the trip to the Red Planet.
If all goes to plan the privately funded mission could blast off by 2025.
Martin Fisher met the wannabe explorer:
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