Volunteer required, bad news is you'll have to take the missus along
US private sector hopes to send older couple to Mars
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BBC News - US private sector hopes to send older couple to Mars
But conditions would be squeezed and spartan, with no room for pressurised space suits. The report suggests that 1,360kg of dehydrated food will be enough to last the journey and the manifest includes 28kg of toilet paper for a crew of 2 for 500 days.
But the issue of radiation protection according to Mr Ojha is "glossed over" with the recognition that more work and "creative solutions" need to be explored. More work will also need to done to improve recycling technologies to convert urine into water.
Sweet, I wondered how they were going to rehydrate lunch..
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