Businessman Dennis Tito Financing Manned Mission to Mars
An announcement this week that a group led by the world’s first space “tourist,” Dennis Tito, plans to send a manned mission to flyby Mars in 2018 has lit up the Internet.
A press advisory from the new group, the Inspiration Mars Foundation, made no mention about whether there would be humans onboard.
But reports from NewSpace Journal say that there will be two crew members making the journey.
The Inspiration Mars Foundation,
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