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Voyage to the Red Planet Two Saskatchewanians make it to the second phase of the Mars One project by ADAM HAWBOLDT
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hen Justin Semenoff was young he was fascinated by space. Every chance he had he’d be outside gazing up at the stares, intrigued by what was out there, out beyond Earth. “I remember being a kid, outside looking up there, and my dad
would be like, ‘Oh, the Leonids meteor showers are happening,” recalls Semenoff. “Or we’d be out there and I’d see what I thought was a shooting star and Dad would be like, ‘No son, that’s a meteorite.’ So that’s where my interest in space and space programs sprang from.”
It was an interest that never wavered. As the years passed, Semenoff continued to be fascinated by space. Then late last year he found a way that maybe, possibly, there was an outside chance he’d be able to go to space. That chance came in the form of the Mars One — a space-exploration project that seeks to establish a human Continued on next page »
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