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10/04/2004: "Space wholesale!"


Mars, Inc.I had been expecting this:

A group of Russian space experts says it is planning a privately financed manned mission to Mars.



Aerospace Systems, a commercial company seeking to fund the project using private capital, suggested it could involve a reality TV show. The project should happen within 10 years and cost $3-5bn.

The plan is for six cosmonauts to take a three-year round trip, including several months exploring Mars. The spaceship would be equipped with its own garden, to supply them with fresh fruit and vegetables. The experts said the craft would use parts already tried and tested at the International Space Station.

Martian landscapeMr Uspensky said the plan - of which the estimated were given as a fraction of those of US plans for a manned mission to Mars - had "good business potential". A real-time TV serial could be made from the lives of the crew, made up of both men and women, which could provide a return on investments in the project, the experts said.

Earlier this week the US authorities issued a licence for the first time to a company hoping to make a manned sub-orbital space flight in a privately owned rocket.

Read more at BBC News Online



Replies: 3 Comments


on Monday, April 12th, Keith Barrows said

shocked - yep. Pretty dead on.




on Monday, April 12th, Phil said

My comment on Keith Barrows' website:

Thanks for having visited! I'm actually sharing a passion with my cousin to do something big in space. I dream about soon having my office on the Moon and we both feel that we're seeing the explosion of space-related initiatives, now involving the commercial sector in a big way. I'd like to build a space hotel in orbit and have been doing some research about it for some years. My cousin is studying science in Cambridge and I've just completed my business studies in Switzerland. I'd like to start my career in aerospace. One large company I've been in touch with has started many initiatives involving highly qualified Russian engineers: tapping the technical and creative knowledge of Eastern Europe and bringing the financial and integration capabilities of Western Europe.

Wow, if all goes well I should be starting with them in a mere few weeks!

See you in space!

Phil




on Monday, April 12th, Keith Barrows said

cool eh?

Sounds exciting! Congratulations man! If you ever want to, our sites has some open sections for anyone to join in. Always looking for ideas and criticisms.

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