Tycoon, others hope to send married couple on Mars flyby

Thursday, February 28, 2013

WASHINGTON -- A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around Mars and come back home, hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape togetherness in a capsule half the size of an RV.

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