"Meet the Couple Who Could Be the First Humans to..." Topic

…Travel to Mars.

"Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum are planning a trip to Mars. They've been hashing out the details for 20 years now, and alternate between being extremely excited and utterly terrified by the prospect, refusing to discuss it after 5 p.m. to avoid nightmares.

The couple's far-out dreams of space travel differ from those of many others because theirs could, potentially, come true. They founded a private space company called Paragon Space Development Corporation to find the most feasible way to send two people on a round-trip flyby of the Red Planet. Even the best possible plan will be extremely challenging. The list of things they still need to figure out is long and includes how to protect themselves against deadly radiation, how much food, water, and air to bring, and how to store their waste. Meanwhile, they must wait for Congress to agree to fund the project and allow the use of the NASA Space Launch System and Orion crew vehicle for transport.

And they need to figure this all out soon: They have only a brief window of time at the end of 2021 when Mars and Earth will align in such a way to make this trip possible…"

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And we want to send these two because….

If anyone goes, you send a 100. Then 1000. Then 10,000. or stay home and forget it.

Get a better engine.

Stop getting involved in moronic Middle East affairs and you could have done this already 1000 times.

I got about 300,000+ just sitting on the southern border.

I say we send them.

They're just beachhead colonists preparing Mars for inevitable exodus of billionaire conservatives escaping the Earth they ruined.