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Tycoon Wants To Send Married Couple To Mars

Description:If you’re a middle-aged married couple with a sense of adventure… how about a trip to Mars? NASA engineer turned multi-millionaire Dennis Tito has announced plans to send a couple on a privately-built spaceship to slingshot on a fly-by around the Red Planet. Tito says he hopes to make the launch within the next five years, at an estimated price tag of more than $1 billion. The trip will confine the couple in a cramped space capsule for an estimated 501 days. (0:51)

Source: KTLA

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