Apr 21, 2019 | Mars, Media Publications, Read
Africa remains one of the greatest potential markets for air transport on the globe and this year’s annual Aviation Africa summit and exhibition will explore even further afield with the show organisers promising speakers that are both down to earth and out of this world. The event takes place in Kigali, Rwanda (27-28 Feb 2019). Stepping into the unknown will be key to the presentation by Dr Marais – a quantum biologist, a theoretical physicist, the director of the South Africa Space Foundation and head of innovation for SAP Africa.
Apr 2, 2019 | Creativity & Innovation, Mars, Read, Technology
Australia’s long overdue space agency may have more than a trickle-down effect for the water industry. David Barbeler investigates.
Feb 25, 2019 | Listen, Mars, Radio Interviews
“Elon Musk’s team at Space X is building the transport system to get the first humans there in the next decade… nothing changes… Nothing in this announcement causes me to waver…” — Dr Adriana Marais, quantum biology researcher Mars One is bankrupt. The...
Feb 4, 2019 | Listen, Mars
What would motivate someone to leave the comfort of Earth to go for the unknown and make a whole new planet their home? Gareth gets to the bottom of this by chatting to South African Mars One candidate Adriana Marais. The self-described aspiring Martian chats about her love of what lies in the sky above us and what it would mean for her to be selected to live on the fourth planet from the Sun.
Oct 10, 2018 | Mars, Read, Watch
Dr Adriana Marais, Head of Innovation, SAP Africa, is one of the candidates for the Mars One programme, meaning she could go on a one-way trip to Mars. We talked to Dr Marais about what drives her out-of-this-world ambition.
Dr Marais said: “I’ve wanted to explore other planets since I was about four. I wasn’t sure which ones at that point, and then in 2013, I read the newspaper headline: ‘Call for volunteers for a one-way trip to Mars’. I hadn’t even finished reading that sentence when I knew, this was my opportunity, this was my destiny.”
Sep 4, 2018 | Mars, Videos, Watch
Dr Adriana Marais, theoretical physicist and one of the 100 budding extra-terrestrials in the Mars One Project speaks with Ellen Fanning about moving to Mars, and the challenges associated with establishing and sustaining life on another planet.
