Posted on 02/23/2015 12:25:08 PM PST by Gamecock
Earnshaw has a boyfriend, but says the relationship operates within “the understanding that for me the Mars Mission is what I want to do and if I do end up getting through to the final groups, then we’re going to go our separate ways and that’s something we’re both okay with”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“You know where you’re going? To the moon, Alice....Bang! Zoom!”
Sheesh, I would be too.
and what does that tell you?
I was thinking the very same thing... except the Futurama version..
Now that is a good break-up!
No late night phone calls, no pop-ins. No guilt.
Good one ... made me laugh
I don’t think this particular project is going anywhere. I think we are way early for this.
But it is an exciting subject and I can understand people volunteering for the chance (though, obviously, at least some are doing it only for the publicity and not really for the chance of an actual voyage).
Yeah, and I 'spect a whole lot of other girlfriends, wives and ex-wives are also getting signatures for their permission slips.
What kind of Neanderthal would deprive them of such a unique opportunity.
Since when does NASA plan one-way missions?
Doesn’t exactly sound like a tight relationship there
The time delay for a radio signal to get from Earth to Mars varies from 3 to 48 minutes, depending on exactly where the planets are in their orbits.
Would make Skype Sex pretty damned annoying I’d think.
I don’t think NASA is planning one. I think a private venture is planning one
This is a private company, not NASA.
Not likely to ever happen.
“Since when does NASA plan one-way missions?”
NASA has already been provided a plan to get there and back but has chosen to ignore it for lack of pork. Maybe the Chinese will get there eventually but NASA never will.
I was going to post something similar, but thought that would be mean, after all, who knows what the dude looks like?
“We’re whalers on the Moon! We’re whalers on the Moon...”
"So...sleeping over...is optional. Now we're getting somewhere."
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