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Tycoon shoots for stars with Mars plan

WASHINGTON — It’s a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars.

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

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Sounds like fun. Where do I sign up?

a fool and his money ...

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Yeah, they probably said that to DaVinci and Edison.  "Hey, Wilbur and Orville, how much did that thing cost you?  Hah!  It'll never get off the ground."  (Feel free to add other names.)

To MARS! This is Awesome!