Millionaire To Send Married Couple To Mars

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 49•09 • Mar 1, 2013

American multimillionaire Dennis Tito, famous for being the first space tourist in 2001, announced plans to finance a 500-day mission that would send a spacecraft carrying a married civilian couple to fly by Mars and then return to Earth. What do you think?

“Absolutely nothing about this is a bad idea.”
Bud Batha –
Sewage Plant Supervisor
“I hope there isn’t going to be one of those bullshit twists where the couple’s names turn out to be Adam and Eve.”
Karen Humberger –
Helminthologist
“Sounds like a perfect trip, minus the wife part! Ha, I’m just kidding. I would love to experience something like that with Marie.”
Douglas Alstadter –
Inseam Trimmer

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