American billionaire will take people to Mars

Dennis Tito, the world's first cosmonaut, announced yesterday he wanted to take the two men to Mars and return in 2018.

Tito's plan, who flew to the International Space Station in 2001, was announced at a press conference yesterday. The billionaire praised the recent outstanding outstanding technological achievements of the human world - such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Orion Spacecraft. But he also stressed that humanity has not sent people farther than the moon for 40 years, the BBC reported.

"A lot of people my age were waiting for a flight to take people to places farther away than the moon. We waited and waited. Now I think I should stop feeling that waiting," Tito said. expression.

Inspiration Mars Foundation, an organization founded by Tito, has conducted a study to understand the feasibility of the idea of ​​bringing people to Mars. Research results show that humans can make flights to the red planet.

Dennis Tito once flew to ISS in April 2001 and was incubating
keep the dream of bringing people to Mars after 5 years. (Photo: NASA)

Jane Poynter, a member of Tito's project, had taken part in a trial of human tolerance for long flights in space in 1991. In that experiment, she and 7 others lived in a closed chamber for two years. She said that Tito and his colleagues wanted to find two middle-aged people - one male and one female - to bring them to Mars. In long space flights, the level of cosmic radiation impact on the health and fertility of middle-aged people is much lower than other ages.

The most important criteria in the selection process are couples or lovers who have a deep and strong emotional relationship to be able to endure mental stress during the flight to the red planet.

"Living in an environment separate from the civilized world for two years. Therefore, during the selection process, we will try to find people who are not discouraged by the harsh circumstances , " Poynter said.

Mars Inspiration Fund experts want to launch a ship that takes the two men to Mars in January 2018 because it is a time when Mars is closer to Earth than in other months. The flight will take about 501 days (or a year and a half). If the airship flies in other months, the flight time may be up to two or three years.

Many people believe that future technologies are capable of helping scientists prevent the effects of cosmic radiation on people in long space flights. However, research by the Mars Inspiration Fund shows that humans can fly to Mars with the Dragon spacecraft and Falcon missiles built by Space X technology group in the US.