Who Wants To Go to Mars?

Onetime space tourist Dennis Tito is looking for someone to send up to Mars. But there are some requirements: This someone must be part of a couple, and the significant other must be willing to go, too. ("Married couples have occasionally flown in space before, on short flights, and it seemed to work well, so why not," says Lincoln University's Prof. Christopher Riley.) Both need to be middle-aged. ("The idea of sending older astronauts on longer duration missions, after they have had children, has been around for a while. The reasoning is that such a long duration mission, outside of the protective magnetosphere of the Earth, could leave them infertile," Riley said.) And they must be available for a year and a half starting January 2018 ~ and that's just for the flight (story and videos): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21603490