Do you think he will manage it.

[manxman]

Private space mission will slingshot past Venus and Mars | DVICE

Our species has an ongoing fascination with the planet Mars. Perhaps that has everything to do with a NASA rover named Curiosity, or just an increased awareness of Mars and its habitable potential, but governmental organizations and private companies are all racing to explore the red planet. A new private mission, called Inspiration Mars, is planning what would be the first manned mission to Mars and back, by using a slingshot trajectory to send a spacecraft by Mars and Venus before returning to Earth.

Inspiration Mars is the brainchild of Dennis Tito, multimillionaire and the world’s first space tourist. In 2001, Tito spent eight days in orbit on a mission to the International Space Station. That trip must have inspired him, because he’s now making plans to send humans even farther, past both Venus and Mars, taking us closer to two planets (and farther from Earth) than we’ve ever been.

2021 is when the planets are aligned, thats when he wants to do it.

 

[Han]

Private space mission will slingshot past Venus and Mars | DVICE

Our species has an ongoing fascination with the planet Mars. Perhaps that has everything to do with a NASA rover named Curiosity, or just an increased awareness of Mars and its habitable potential, but governmental organizations and private companies are all racing to explore the red planet. A new private mission, called Inspiration Mars, is planning what would be the first manned mission to Mars and back, by using a slingshot trajectory to send a spacecraft by Mars and Venus before returning to Earth.

Inspiration Mars is the brainchild of Dennis Tito, multimillionaire and the world’s first space tourist. In 2001, Tito spent eight days in orbit on a mission to the International Space Station. That trip must have inspired him, because he’s now making plans to send humans even farther, past both Venus and Mars, taking us closer to two planets (and farther from Earth) than we’ve ever been.

2021 is when the planets are aligned, thats when he wants to do it.

Do you recon you would have "Total Recall" when you come back? or would they just take your money and stick you in a simulator?

I like the idea of asking for a ticket to "mars" with a strait face

 

[manxman]

i think they have the machinery/tech to do it, but food, and the amount of time it will take, i dont know whether they will return alive, but he will find 2 people who will have ago for sure.

 

[mike]

By then we should have developed the tech to make the trip in 30 days.......

Now a team at the University of Washington, with funding from the space agency, is about to start building a fusion engine that could get humans there in just 30 days and make other forms of space travel obsolete.

NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days • The Register


NASA - The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy

 

[stonehart]

By then we should have developed the tech to make the trip in 30 days.......




NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days • The Register


NASA - The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy

About bloody time