Couple set to go to Mars!!
Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum kept their relationship alive inside Biosphere 2 and now they'd like to test their marriage on a long, risky flight to Mars.
The couple spent two years inside Biosphere 2, emerging from the Southern Arizona experiment in contained living in September 1993.
Now married, they are founders and officers of Paragon Space Development Corp., a Tucson firm that makes life-support systems for space travel.
They have signed on to an ambitious plan to send humans around Mars - a 501-day mission scheduled to blast off in January 2018.
One man and one woman will make the flight and Poynter said she and MacCallum would like to be the pair if they can survive a crew selection process described as "extremely rigorous" at a news conference announcing the plan Wednesday.
http://azstarnet.com/news/science/biosphere-couple-offer-to-go-to-mars/a...
Read the biosphere stuff. Great going. Whether it prepares one for a flight to Mars is debatable.
i wish them luck. I wonder if it is worth coming back ?
I would rather stay there and build a biosphere on Mars.
Maybe one suit will house two.
Its a return journey!! I wonder how would they design their space suits to keep a provision for them to have some fun on their way to Mars and back.
They have signed on to an ambitious plan to send humans around Mars....is that on a one way or return ticket?