Mars One 'Overly Optimistic' In Its Assessment Of Planned Mission: MIT Study

If you are one of the 200,000 people who signed up for Mars One's ambitious program to colonize the red planet, here is something that might make you reconsider the decision. According to a study conducted by a team of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first batch of Martian settlers would begin dying within 68 days of arriving on the planet.