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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A human mission to Mars is technologically feasible, but hugely expensive requiring enormous financial and political commitments. A creative solution to this dilemma would be a one-way human mission to Mars in place of the manned return mission that remains stuck on the drawing board. We envision that Mars exploration would begin and proceed for a long time on the basis of outbound journeys only.
From the abstract of an article inviting a two-man crew to hurtle through space in a tiny capsule for 6 months, expose themselves to harmful cosmic radiation, and set up a colony on a hostile, distant planet with no hope of return to Earth. Sign me up! http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars108.html
