Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Inspiration Mars

Dennis Tito is discovering that sending two people around Mars with a five year lead is tougher than he'd thought.  Inspiration Mars was supposed to be a wholly private enterprise, but now Tito is saying the project probably can't be done without NASA participation.

So far, NASA is holding back.  One wonders, frankly, whether Mr. Tito wasn't pursuing a strategy not to fly this mission without NASA carrying most of the water all along.

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