Want to go to Mars? We hope you like blue sunsets, mind-melting g-forces and living underground

Congratulations, you’ve won a ticket to Mars.

You may have to wait a while before you can get on a flight. Launch opportunities only come around every couple of years when Earth and Mars line up.

Your first challenge will be to actually get off Earth.

That’s not as easy as it sounds (we’re still ironing out a few technical details with our spacecraft).

It’s a hell of a ride. To break free of Earth’s gravitational pull, you need to reach escape velocity — that’s 40,000 kilometres per hour, or 11km per second.

That means you’ll have to train yourself to tolerate high g-forces.

During take-off, astronauts experience at least three times the gravitational (g) force of Earth (most humans can tolerate up to 5gs before passing out), and up to 8gs…