It has been a long-cherished dream of space enthusiasts, as well as lovers of science fiction, but now it seems that someone has finally come up with an ambitious – and some say realistic – plan to send two astronauts to Mars in just five years’ time.
Tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington, multi-millionaire
Dennis Tito – the world’s first space tourist – is expected to reveal
how he hopes to launch a privately-funded mission to Mars in 2018, when
the Red Planet makes its nearest approach to Earth.
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