Nonprofit To Send A Married Couple Skimming Past Mars In 2018

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 11:30 in Astronomy & Space

Cozy Mars Capsule The Inspiration Mars capsule could incorporate an inflatable element with a modified SpaceX Dragon capsule. Inspiration MarsThe least crazy aspect of this mission is the desire to do it. An audacious plan to send two people looping around Mars and back has a lot of crazy components--who will pay for it? Who will design and build the special rocket and spaceship for this mission? How can it possibly be ready in just five years? And who gets to go? And why? So far, only that last question has an answer, and it's the only non-crazy part of this new plan: Why not? We first heard about the "Mission for America" last week, when the first details emerged about space tourist Dennis Tito's Inspiration Mars program. Tito, who gained fame as the first person to pay for a round-trip ticket to the International Space Station, wants to send a two-person...

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