{"id":29088,"date":"2012-08-04T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/get-your-ass-to-mars-and-leave-it-there.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:33:19","slug":"get-your-ass-to-mars-and-leave-it-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/get-your-ass-to-mars-and-leave-it-there.html","title":{"rendered":"Get your ass to Mars … and leave it there"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'm not sure I'd quite<\/i> use the term "suicide mission." But the idea of a one-way mission to Mars, even with provisions made for long-term survival and support from Earth, seems pretty extreme, foolhardy … or, perhaps, brave and admirable.<\/p>\n

Yes, I can see a million ways this could go wrong (starting with it being bankrolled by a private company). Still … boldly going where no man has gone before does have a certain romance to it. The devil, then, is in the details.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jim Feig<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I'm not sure I'd quite use the term "suicide mission." But the idea of a one-way mission to Mars, even with provisions made for long-term survival and support from Earth, seems pretty extreme, foolhardy … or, perhaps, brave and admirable. 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