Free trip to Mars - Who fancies an all-expenses-paid 501day trip?

[Coast]

Squillionaire space tourist offers oldsters a holiday to Mars

A new organisation led by Dennis Tito - the world's first space tourist - wants to send an older couple on an all-expenses-paid 501-day trip to Mars.

So would you consider going?

"When you're out that far and the Earth is a tiny, blue pinpoint, you're going to need someone you can hug," he told Space.com. "What better solution to the psychological problems you're going to encounter with that isolation?"

Edited March 1, 2013 by Coast

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Yes

[Snowangel-North]

So would you consider going?

Not in a million light years

[alexisj9]

No way.

[Coast]

I've added a poll, but I can guess what the results will be!

[Methuselah]

Would we need to send a cross-party group of politicians on a 'fact-finding' mission first?

[full_frontal_occlusion]

I hope they both have good pre-nuptials. In space, no-one can hear you scream.