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Getting Humanity to Mars

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  • Tuesday, 17 October 2017
  • 14:17 - 14:17
  • Duration: 30 mins
  • Publication date: 20 Oct 2017
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Engfest 2.0 2017

About the session

BAS LANSDORP, CEO, Mars One, and a man on a mission to establish a human settlement on the Red planet.

Your chance to encounter the future of engineering. Which technologies will become important as we move through the 21st Century?

Join us for a one-day event that will shine a light on ideas that have the potential to disrupt and change the way we do things, through a series of innovative and insightful talks.

Keywords:
  • Engfest 2.0
  • Mars One
  • earth
  • engineer
  • engineers
  • explore
  • healthcare
  • mars
  • solar system
  • space
  • transformative healthcare technologies

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    Bas Lansdorp

    Mars One, CEO

    CEO, Mars One, and a man on a mission to establish a human settlement on the Red planetBas Lansdorp is an entrepreneur with a passion for ambitious projects. He is co-founder and CEO of Mars One, the Dutch foundation that aims to land the first human on Mars in 2032.Lansdorp abandoned his PhD research in wind energy at Delft University of Technology to start his first company, Ampyx Power.Ampyx Power develops a novel, cheaper than coal, method of wind energy generation. Lansdorp then sold part of his shares in Ampyx Power to finance the start of Mars One.Now, just three years later, Mars One is one of the established names in the world of space exploration. Mars One aims to send its first unmanned demonstration mission to Mars in 2022 and recently announced.
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