Serhiy Yakymov from the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr is among a hundred candidates who could become the first humans of Mars within the Mars One Dutch space project. To move closer to the goal and prepare for the trip, the guy moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
“Being an astronaut it’s my dream job since the very childhood. In 2013, I filled out a questionnaire and recorded a video, telling why I want to go to Mars. I underwent a medical examination and was interviewed. Apart from me, 200,000 participants took part in the selection. Now there are only a hundred of us. We are waiting for the final stage of selection that will take place in the Netherlands. Our physical and mental health status will be checked. We will be living in groups in the model of a Martian base. The organizers will evaluate our teamwork, whether we are ready to interact with the same people constantly, to resolve conflicts,” he says, Gazeta.ua reports.
