NEW YORK: According to the Mars One astronaut selection process, 100 people were chosen from 660 candidates, who in turn were shortlisted from among 202,586 contestants.
The first one, Del Rosario, 27, is the CEO and founder of an interesting company: International Metal Source. It distributes raw material metals and exotic alloys to aerospace, defense and commercial industries since 2009.
She is also the partner of fitness equipment, Bounce Core Platform, and admitted that she is “very interested to be part of any outer space endeavor.”
“I want to offer my life experience, knowledge and skills to the Mars One team to achieve the goal for preserving humanity,” she said on her profile page.
The second candidate, Rañeses, 24, called herself an “intellectual wanderer” who seeks “growth in knowledge and philosophy.”
“I don’t decide based on monetary or materialistic returns, but on the experience I will garner. As of now, career-wise, I’m a drifter. There is so much to learn, and keeping to a linear path seems a bit too constricting. I’ve been focusing in adventuring lately. As for my profession, I tell people I’m a writer,” she said, according to rappler.com.
Her interests included philosophy, literature, and history, along with politics and religion, “and their cause and effect on society.”
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