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Offline Star Cluster

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Privately funded manned Mars mission in 2018?
« on: February 23, 2013, 11:43:53 am »
Remember the first "space tourist" back in 2001?  He spent around 20 million dollars to spend a little over a week on the International Space Station.

Anyway, he has come up with the idea to fund a manned-mission to the red planet in 2018.  While I would like to someday see humans travel to Mars, I just don't think this plan is going to work.  It sounds just a bit too, shall we say, spartan to have much chance for success.

But this could get interesting.
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Re: Privately funded manned Mars mission in 2018?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2013, 08:38:43 pm »
Please let it be funded by Mars Bars. ;D
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Re: Privately funded manned Mars mission in 2018?
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2013, 06:43:16 pm »
It'll explode. Guarantee it.
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Re: Privately funded manned Mars mission in 2018?
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2013, 07:07:09 pm »
Like all of these "we're totally going to do something mega-awesome in a few years" things, I'll believe it when they actually do it.
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