Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby in 2018

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press A drawing provided by Inspiration Mars shows an artist’s conception of a spacecraft envisioned by the private group, which wants to send a married couple on a mission to fly by the red planet and zip back home, beginning in 2018.

WASHINGTON—It’s a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars.

A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one pi...

Published: 02/28/2013