Abandoned on Mars!

I was reading about a man who is trying to figure out how life will be without his wife.  She is one of 100 people who have been picked to go to Mars.  It is based on whether the company can afford to send them there.  The ticket is a one way ticket.  They are also basing this on whether they can get funding through a reality show.  What if it turns out to be like Utopia?  They fly them up there and cancel the show after one airing.  I guess it would become like Armageddon.  They will have to get up a crack pot group of experts to fly to Mars to save the world or at least the lives of the colonists.  We will all be watching while listening to I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith.  Then, they will have a competing group of astronauts similar to the movie Deep Impact.  If you don't get it, they were both movies about astronauts trying to save the earth from villainous asteroids and not the Atari versions.