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?"

[I Cumbria Marra I]

Yes

[Snowangel-MK]

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.