Have you heard about companies sending people to live on Mars?
What in the universe applied worldwide,
and we're down to 600 now in, in the running for it.
It's a Dutch company.
They're called the Mars One corporation.
Mars One project.
We obviously plan on building a colony there.
That is the idea of it.
We'll starting a new, a new life out there.
It takes just to build doesn't it?
Well, it, you know, it's a bit like, it's some air tight, right there.
You have a space suit on to move about.
I've been taxiing 20 years.
I've done some other things in between and then come back to taxiing.
I was a, a cleaning manager for a while.
Well then, I'm a well done.
Tales financial advisor, which is probably the worst job in the world for
me because I'm not that good with money.
I've often thought of leaving home, and
no where has actually caught my eye enough to.
Twice, this is this it it, I'm packing up, I'm going,
Mars may have been the place to do it.
We go knowing that we'll never ever return to Earth].
It's a one way ticket.
We're being told that we accept, and we're willing to take that.
On Mars, there's nothing at the moment.
Home has got everything that you could possibly want.
I read it in paper, yeah.
You've read about me in the paper, yeah.
There's a lady taxi driver that's going to Mars.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Yeah. Are you that?
Are you that lady taxi driver?
I certainly am, yeah.
Really.
I wanna go.
You want to go to Mars?
Well.
Maybe not as much as you, but.
If we can go and we can start, to change things on Mars so
it is habitable, that will become a possibility.
People will be able to go to Mars.
Yeah. Just to be safe.
Mars One's mission, to establish a human settlement on Mars.
Mars is the stepping stone of the human race on it's voyage into the universe.
From what I can gather from Doctor Norbert Craft,
who is the chief, clinical psychologist for
Mars One, there's a hundred of those guys going through to the next edge.
I'm praying and hoping that I've done enough to, for
them to see, I am psychologically strong enough to do that.
I can't afford to go to the gym, I can't afford the,
the time out to spend an hour, two hours, whatever, at the gym a day.
So I'll do what I can.
Once I'm in, once I'm in the training car,
I have to go to work as a taxi driver, for 14, 16 hours a day.
Phew.
I'm pooped.
We talked among each of them, and a lot of the other applicants, and
that, and I tried to explain and they said nobody'd be in charge.
Because we're all equal.
But unfortunately, the human race is always fall to be the leader.
I think it'll be the strongest of Mars who, who will lead Mars eventually.
With the way we'll be living and interacting with that will be very,
very different.
I mean up on Mars we're gonna have no policing, we're gonna have no money.
It'd probably be a bit of a holiday for me to be honest with ya,
I'd probably only have to work eight hours a day or something.
So would you live on Mars then?
That's what I'm hoping to do, yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
It's possible.
We've got the technology to do it.
Now once we're there, we don't know how long we'll live if we'll even live.
Well, we've got to have, it's possible anyway, you know, so.
I suppose it's worth a try, isn't it?
It's worth a try, yeah.
Would you go live on Mars? No, I don't think I would,
not if only a few can go.
Yeah. And, like, the hustle and
bustle of being in the town and, yeah.
Depends what you're doing I suppose, know what I mean?
I think it'd be a lot harder if I had a lot of children.
And a lot of friends and family, and everything else.
No, I haven't.
No, no.
Yeah.
They're not holding you back?
There isn't nothing holding me back, no, no, no.
No.
One of the things that I do first with going to mass is I'm going to have to
stop hormones.
Breast implants would be quite nice if I could get away with them,
because once I start hormones, my breasts will start shrinking.
If I had set, sat back when people was telling me you'll never
successfully as a woman, if I had thought, oh yeah, they're right.
You know, and yeah.
I just.
This miserable existence as a man.
Just checking to see what's going to be on tonight.
Nice to let my hair down now and again.
And so I've been all serious and everything at work, and
obviously for the Mars One Project, but
everybody needs to let their hair down at sometime or another.
I think you've got to be able to walk in, when you walk in the club or
the pub, to turn people's heads.
If you can't do that, you're wasting your time, really.
I guess, hopefully, we will have some clothes of some description there.
We won't be in the spacesuit all the time.
We'll wait.
So, yeah.
Okay, I'm not gonna go out and mope for a night out.
But, I don't even suppose there'll be alcohol there, so
we won't have to worry about that anywhere.
Who says, I've said before, I think that the main thing is gonna be survival.
They was really hard growing up, cuz like my friends was mainly gals and everything.
And, when their bodies and everything started changing and.
Mine started changing, but it wasn't changing like theirs.
Mine was getting manly, their was getting female.
I'm looking and thinking, my God, this isn't happening.
It, it was a scary, scary time.
Very scary.
I didn't feel like a boy whatsoever.
Anybody stuck in the same situation needs to believe in yourself,
do it for yourself.
Nobody's gonna give you it.
I just got rid of everything of my, my male self.
Threw it all away and started living as Melissa from that day.
This brings some great, great titles on like.
This one says it's cocked.
I botched my drunken sex swap op.
Cabbie Melissa to book a cup to ride and ride to Mars.
I'm selling my virginity.
Do you find that funny, or do you find,.
No, I find it really funny, yeah.
What they're headlining, I'm not bothered because as long as it gets the readers.
It doesn't matter.
They can say what they want
I think we've got everything, lippy, no we haven't, body spray.
It was fun at the time.
I mean, for god's sake, I lost my willy, I got a vagina, I wanted to show it off.
So I did show it off.
And I was proud of what I got.
I was the one who'd dare to get all daring and get everything off.
That's why they're dancing in their knickers in the pants.
I didn't.
I stripped the lot off.
I was naked, totally, cuz it's a bollock naked.
So even though I didn't have any more bollocks.
You know that gown, oh, who doesn't have a past.
You'd be boring without a past wouldn't you, so, we're going this way.
Would you ever go to Mars?
I would never go to Mars.
Why?
'Cuz I don't want to go.
Why?
'Cuz it's cold.
Or is it hot?
It's cold.
It's cold. It's very cold.
Wow.
Might be fun.
Eating worms, and bugs, and things.
I'll be cheering.
You're going to have to be the strongest people.
It's going to anticipate, but you have got to make your life there.
Whoever steps on Mars first,
they're gonna be remembered forever for
what they've done.
I don't have much family, and it was like.
When I first told him, it was, yeah, whatever.
What's this crazy thing scheme, you're scheming now?
I don't ever fear death anymore.
I'm not afraid to die, and
I'm definitely not afraid to die trying to get my dreams either.
I'm going to make that mark on mankind doing something that nobody's ever done
before.
I was speaking to my brother only the other day and
he said, at first he didn't believe it, but he doesn't want me to go to Mars.
You know, you'll miss me and things like that.
So I think, in all seriousness now, people are try, starting to believe it and
first transgender on Mars, that's big news.
That's Saturn, that's the next challenge after Mars.
Yeah I'm short listed for it is, and hopefully I'm maybe going to live on Mars.
So.
I don't think.
I mean, in a few years?
It'd be more like 2050.
With the plan.
How about when the robots come?
The, the, they're planning on 2023 so, it's not that far away.
Now, if you're saying about 200 years, then I'll believe ya.
Yeah. Not three.
Keep, keep watching in space cuz fingers crossed.
Cuz he texted me, it's just to build a little road.
Yeah. Oh.
Right then.
Come on. Thank you for your time again.