Dennis Tito, world's first space tourist, announces mission to launch a manned Mars flyby in January
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[quote]A new nonprofit led by the world's first space tourist is mounting an ambitious plan to launch the first manned mission to Mars in 2018, a voyage that could include an adventurous 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 announced the private Mars voyage plan today (Feb. 27) here at the National Press Club, where he held a press conference to launch his new organization, the Inspiration Mars Foundation, to back the mission.[/quote]
So this is Mars' Apollo 8
Flyby, not an actual landing.
:C
Still awesome
Enjoy your disappearing bones and insanity :v:
[QUOTE=Xyrec;39736943]Enjoy your disappearing bones and insanity :v:[/QUOTE]
Enjoy your blindness and cancer. :v:
[QUOTE=rilez;39736918]Flyby, not an actual landing.
:C[/QUOTE]
It's still a massive step if you think about it, though.
[QUOTE=Xyrec;39736943]Enjoy your disappearing bones and insanity :v:[/QUOTE]
Not if you design the ship properly so that it rotates on there way there and generates 1 g (sticking everyone to the outside of the ship)
Unless they can simulate gravity it would have some harsh physical effects on your body..
If he can do it i'll be impressed, I kinda doubt it though. That is ALLOT of distance to cover and ALLOT would need to be brought with him. Plus a very strict deadline he would have to ready for.
[QUOTE=Aphtonites;39736982]It's still a massive step if you think about it, though.[/QUOTE]
I know, I'm just really looking forward to seeing a landing one day
what if they fuck up and they end up overshooting :C
[quote]"This is a philanthropic mission," he said, adding that its primary goal was to inspire the nation with the excitement of space travel[/quote]
It's a shame that the only way to get people interested in space exploration is by appealing to human vanity and nationalism.
With the amount of time and money needed to send people (and the food they need to eat and water they need to drink for 12 months) on a flyby around mars he probably could have designed an aquatic drilling probe and sent it to Europa to look for extraterrestrial life.
Everybody wants to see artificial milestones in their lifetime, rather than facing the reality that practical space exploration is something that requires baby steps, and may only yield fruits to future generations.
I'm afraid he won't be making here alive. But hey at least we get a fuckton of information and shit.
[QUOTE=hamar;39737577]I'm afraid he won't be making here alive. But hey at least we get a fuckton of information and shit.[/QUOTE]
"What kills humans in space" is a topic that's already been very thoroughly documented.
Everybody knows how to make artificial gravity, everybody knows how to make shielding, everybody knows how much food and water is required to sustain a living person. None of this is new information.
This is absurd. You're going to fly people all the way to mars, but not land? Not even a probe so we can bring back some specimens? You could do so much more with that budget by sending more robots. What a waste.
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