Is Millionaire Space Tourist Planning Trip to Mars?

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, this would be the coolest thing since Lindberg

http://www.space.com/19901-mars-spac...nnis-tito.html

Buzz is building about a planned 2018 private mission to Mars, which may launch the first humans toward the Red Planet.

A nonprofit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation — which is led by millionaire Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist — will hold a news conference on Feb. 27 to announce the 501-day roundtrip mission, which will aim for a January 2018 launch.