Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has partnered with the UAE for the “Mars Shot” contest to “make his wildest dreams come true,” Hart explains in a video on the contest website.
“Mars Shot” is a global digital campaign that invited people from around the world to apply to “share an inspiring dream and have a chance to make it come true,” the contest website read. “Unleash your imagination and search for the stars. Let’s do the impossible, possible,” she continues.
“Now I am in a position in my life where I am interested in inspiring, motivating, dreaming, achieving,” Hart explained in a video on the site. He went on to explain that he partnered with the UAE, which has just successfully launched its first interplanetary mission, a Mars orbiter named Hope, for this initiative, which asks people around the world to dream up their own “Mars Shot”.
A “Shot from Mars,” Hart explained, “means dreaming so big you can’t see it here. That dream is so big it’s there where Mars is. It’s very, very far away.”
“Whatever you think your dream is, I want you to go one step beyond that. Take one step beyond that dream and make it bigger,” he said.
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For the contest, applicants submitted videos of themselves explaining what their “Mars Shot” is, or great idea for the world, and why they should win.
Of these applicants, 15 were chosen and the public had the opportunity to vote on who they wanted to win and whose “Mars Shot” they wanted to see executed. These applicants are various artists, storytellers, and more.
One of these 15 finalists is actually a space chef: analog astronaut Sian Proctor whose “Shot from Mars” is “eliminating hunger and food waste on Earth” through the use of space food technologies.
Voting for these finalists ends today (July 25), and on August 5, three winners will be announced. And what do they earn? Well, according to Hart, they win their dream “Mars Shot”.
“My partners and I will do what we do best: make it happen,” he explained.
You can vote for your favorite finalist here.
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