News (Inspiration Mars) Dennis Tito Wants to Send Human Mission to Mars in 2018

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NBCNEWS.com - Cosmic Log: Millionaire spaceflier reportedly plans private mission to Mars in 2018:

Dennis Tito, the millionaire investment whiz who became the first paying passenger to visit the International Space Station in 2001, is said to be planning a privately backed, 501-day mission to Mars in 2018. But the full details — including whether humans will go along for the ride — may have to wait until a Washington news conference next week.

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[RisingFury]

I want to send a Moon mission by evening and a Mars mission by tomorrow morning. Doesn't mean it'll happen.

 

[asbjos]

He wants to send a mission to Mars in just five years?:blink:

Good luck.

 

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NBCNEWS.com - Cosmic Log: How a millionaire spaceflier intends to send astronauts past Mars in 2018

 

[C3PO]

Does he plan on bringing them back?

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Actually it seems that the manned Mars mission is "just" a Dragon launched with 2 people on a Falcon Heavy on a Mars fly-by free return mission in 2018, with the mission length at 501 days. I'm still skeptical, but at least this is even more doable than Golden Spike......

Source: New insights on that private (crewed?) Mars mission

 

[Codz]

So...two people stuck in a tin can for 501 days? Good luck with that....

 

[Mojave]

Sounds bloody boring. Why do we have to get people on mars so soon? What's a few decades? Allow some time for research and testing.

 

[jedidia]

Somehow I can't see what scientific benefit a manned flyby would bring, appart maybe from a survivability assesment, but most of that you could also make locking two people into a corner of the ISS for the same ammount of time :shifty:

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Somehow I can't see what scientific benefit a manned flyby would bring, appart maybe from a survivability assesment, but most of that you could also make locking two people into a corner of the ISS for the same ammount of time :shifty:

What if we also add a Venus fly-by? Apparently the only way to make it to Mars and back in 17 months is to do a Earth-Venus-Mars-Earth free return flight: http://cmapspaceexp.ihmc.us/rid=1JWVZ8RM5-TQKTP4-18RG/Mars%20Free%20Returns%20Via%20Gravity%20Assist%20from%20Venus.pdf

Maybe someone can try this out on Orbiter with, say, a DG(IV? XR1?)?

 

[N_Molson]

I wish good luck to him :tiphat:

I have an idea : find two prisoners sentenced to death willing to do it, and give them freedom plus enough money to start a new life if they are back (you never know) :hmm:

 

[Kyle]

Somehow I can't see what scientific benefit a manned flyby would bring, appart maybe from a survivability assesment, but most of that you could also make locking two people into a corner of the ISS for the same ammount of time :shifty:

Why does there have to be a scientific benefit to exploration? The reason is simple: It would be the most historic spaceflight in human history.

The plan looks like to use a Falcon Heavy and a Dragon capsule for a 501 day mission. You'd think it was crazy, but in the dark times we live in - maybe we need something crazy to drive us to finally go to the heavens. With the right consumables and equipment, this is possible.. There's good people like Jonathan Clark on this, don't write this off yet. Far more feasible and a lot more grandeur than the Mars One idea.

 

[sorindafabico]

A Bigelow module could be very useful as SM.

If they find people crazy enough to go.

 

[Kyle]

A Bigelow module could be very useful as SM.

If they find people crazy enough to go.

I remember reading that a lot of people considered when they announced they would send men to the moon that it would be a great trip, if you were crazy enough to go.

Come on though, I think everyone here who has ever played with InterplanetaryMFD or TransX MFD to Mars would volunteer in a heartbeat. :lol:

 

[Keatah]

I'm not so sure prisoners would have the necessary psychological makeup to do this. Besides, we can't even get out of LEO anyways.

 

[N_Molson]

A Bigelow module could be very useful as SM.

I don't think it is designed to be operated outside Earth magnetosphere.

I'm not so sure prisoners would have the necessary psychological makeup to do this.

By the way, it was ironic/sarcastic. I'll add that if they don't kill each other during those 501 days, they will have demonstrated an impressive mental stability and will be ready to be reinserted.

 

[Donamy]

2 weeks in a Gemini was HELL.

 

[sorindafabico]

I remember reading that a lot of people considered when they announced they would send men to the moon that it would be a great trip, if you were crazy enough to go.

Come on though, I think everyone here who has ever played with InterplanetaryMFD or TransX MFD to Mars would volunteer in a heartbeat. :lol:

I would volunteer if issues such as radiation shielding were already well solved.

 

[Codz]

I'm not so sure prisoners would have the necessary psychological makeup to do this. Besides, we can't even get out of LEO anyways.

We can get out of LEO. We just usually lack the funding.

 

[Suzy]

If they can do it, go for it! (And at least part of a previous thread I started - excluding the "using the ISS" part - does not sound so implausible )