NASA
In less than five years, a married couple could be on their way toward Mars in an audacious but bare-bones private mission that would slingshot them around the Red Planet, according to a plan outlined Wednesday by a financial tycoon and his team.
The voyage would be a cosmic no-frills flight that would take the husband-and-wife astronauts as close as 100 miles to Mars, but it would also mean being cooped up for 16 months in a cramped space capsule about half the size of an RV.
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