The Dutch company plans to hold a world wide lottery, of those interested, to select forty people for a training team.
A mock colony will be set up, in a US desert, where the team will train, until the best ten have been selected.
Those ten will be the first crew sent to Mars, with the rest to begin joining them every two years.
They will be preceded, by a habitat, as well as various supplies, starting in 2016.
Funding for the project will come from a reality TV series, to be centered on the selection process for the crew.
For all that go on the trip, there will be no planned return, this will only be a one way trip.
NASA researchers warn that the team will have to be carefully screened by psychiatrists, and given psychological training to be able to deal with the long term separation from the masses of humanity.
The project still faces many issues, such as how the colonists will grow food, and how they'll cross the thirty-four million miles between the two planets.
Costs for the missions will easily exceed five billion dollars.
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