This is kind of bizarre, but a new nonprofit company is launching a plan to send the first manned mission to Mars in 2018, a voyage that could include a married crew. The project, led by American millionaire Dennis Tito -- who paid his own way to space in 2001 -- aims not to land people on the surface of the Red Planet, but to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment that would allow a relatively easy, quick flyby of Mars. Tito hopes to choose a space capsule and rocket from among those already on the market, and modify them to carry two people to Mars and back in 501 days. OMG, locked in a capsule with your spouse with no where to hide for 501 days....ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Married Couple wanted for Mars Voyage?!
This is kind of bizarre, but a new nonprofit company is launching a plan to send the first manned mission to Mars in 2018, a voyage that could include a married crew. The project, led by American millionaire Dennis Tito -- who paid his own way to space in 2001 -- aims not to land people on the surface of the Red Planet, but to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment that would allow a relatively easy, quick flyby of Mars. Tito hopes to choose a space capsule and rocket from among those already on the market, and modify them to carry two people to Mars and back in 501 days. OMG, locked in a capsule with your spouse with no where to hide for 501 days....ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
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