Next Big Future: Bas Lansdorp wants to establish a Mars outpost by ...

Next Big Future: Bas Lansdorp wants to establish a Mars outpost by ...: One of the main difficulties with any manned Mars mission that aims to land humans on the surface of Mars and return them to Earth is gettin...

In an interview for Next Big Future with Sander Olson, Lansdorp discusses the Mars One project, and how he believes that the Mars One project could be done for $6 billion dollars

• European entrepreneur named Bas Lansdorp wants to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, and to pay for it as a media event. 
• our goal is to have all of the technical work done by suppliers and not Mars one
• Question: Is it feasible to grow food using hydroponics on Mars?
• Question: How will the Mars project meet its water requirements?
• Question: So the mars one project will make extensive use of SpaceX's Falcon heavy?
• Question: So this will be financed through some sort of reality tv show?
• Question: Will this project require any Government financing or support?
• Question: What will be the biggest technical problem for Mars one?

According to the article, they will need $6 billion.  That had better be one popular reality TV show.