The Mars One program has reduced the number of possible Mars
colonists from 202,586 applicants to only 100 hopefuls. The Mars One press release stated the hopefuls are equally divided between men and woman, and come from various continents, including 39 from the Americas, 31 from Europe, 16 from Asia, 7 from Africa, and 7 from Oceania.
You can learn about all 100 finalists here. For instance, you can obtain background on
Sergii from Ukraine, who provided this video and profile:
I’m a engineer. I like research space and create space technologies. I have two reasons to go to Mars. Firstly, my dream is fly to space. I always dreamed explore other worlds, especially Mars. The dream lead me in my life. When I was a student I learned space systems and made microsatellite model. Secondly, humanity has long been ready to explore deep space and Mars is closest and more interesting object for this.
