Private Plan to Send Humans to Mars in 2018 Might Not Be So Crazy http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

An ambitious private manned mission to Mars aims to launch a two-person crew to fly around the Red Planet and return to Earth in 501 days, starting in January 2018. The mission is extremely ambitious, well beyond anything previously accomplished by the private sector, and it faces plenty of obstacles. Yet despite these hurdles, of all the bold announcements from private spaceflight companies in recent years, this one seems the most achievable.



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