THIS has to be the ultimate leap into the unknown. To boldly go where no man, or woman, has gone before — and never come back. Yet that’s what 200,000 space enthusiasts applied to do — be among the first 24 people to take a one-way journey to Mars. And stay there for ever. The £4 billion Mars One project, being filmed for a reality programme, has whittled that list down to 100, including five Britons. Scroll down for video Ready for takeoff: Maggie Lieu, 24, a PhD student in astrophysics at the University of Birmingham, is one of five British hopefuls who may be sent to Mars for its first permanent human colony
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Maggie Lieu, 24, is hoping she will be sent to Mars in 2024
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She wants to be part of the first permanent human colony
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The PHD student from Coventry would never return to Earth
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Another hopeful is Oxford University student Ryan MacDonald
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He says that as he knows when he'll leave he can live life to the fullest
You can get global dust storms, engulfing the entire planet for 60 Martian days [40 minutes longer than days on @placeholder].