Mars One Delays Schedule as Venture Becomes Publicly Traded

Mars One, the project to send humans to Mars on one-way missions that has attracted public interest and professional skepticism, said Dec. 7 is it delaying its timetable for those missions by several years. The revised schedule, which shifts the first launch of robotic missions until the early 2020s and the first human mission until the early 2030s, comes as Mars One becomes a publicly-traded companyon the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany and seeks to raise funding.