On Wednesday, a tycoon announced plans to send a middle-aged couple on a privately-built spaceship to slingshot around the Red Planet and come back home hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape togetherness in a cramped capsule.
In fact, under the audacious but bare-bones plan, the spacecraft would blast off less than five years from now and pass within 160 km of the Martian surface and that the cost was not disclosed, but outsiders put it at more than $1 billion.
According to chief technical officer and potential crew member Taber MacCallum this is not going to be an easy mission and that they called it the Lewis and Clark trip to Mars.
As a matter of fact remains while trying the circumstances it include no showers; limits on toilet paper and clothing; drinking water made from recycled urine and sweat; and almost no privacy. But the flight comes with never-before-seen views of Mars and that there’s ample time for zero-gravity sex, something NASA doesn’t like to talk about.
Mr. MacCallum also said that as for why a man and a woman will be selected and that this is very symbolic which really need to represent humanity.
To conclude, the private, non-profit project, called Inspiration Mars, will get initial money from NASA engineer-turned-multimillionaire investment consultant Dennis Tito, the first space tourist.
It's more thrilling because it's romance in the outer space!
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
