Mars is waiting for billionaires to set up colonies on its soil

Mars One had outlined its plans for the first batch of four pioneers to land on the Red Planet in 2027 on a one-way journey. Already, persons have been chosen and are undergoing training to prepare themselves mentally and physically to settle down on an alien planet.
However, the biggest challenges facing the project are more financial in nature rather than technical. Obviously, the need of the hour is for a big donation from a deep-pocketed person.
This has been reported in space.com dated 25 August 2015.

Mars One co-founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp, is a worried man. His ideas are fine and theoretically feasible but finance is a matter of worry. It is not the goal to send humans to Mars in 2027 with a $6 billion budget and 14 launches but, rather, to send humans to Mars.
The organization wants to send up a Mars lander and an orbiting communications satellite in 2020. This would be followed by a scouting rover and second commsat (which will circle the sun instead of the Red Planet) in 2022. Then will come six separate cargo missions in 2024 – these missions would loft a second rover, two human habitats, two life-support units and a "supply unit."
As per estimates, these activities plus the landing of the first four astronauts on the Red Planet in 2027, will add up to about $6 billion. Already, the dates have shifted – the initial plan was to put boots on Mars in 2023, it was shifted to 2025, and now 2027.
If only someone like Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates or Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu decided to finance it, they could have settlements like Gatesville or Slim City up there on the Red Planet Mars.
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