Space tourist and Millionaire entrepreneur Dennis Tito has unveiled plans to send a couple to Mars in January 2018.

Tito made history in 2001 as the first person to fund his own trip to International Space Station.

Because the couple won't actually be landing on the red planet, his team won't have to worry about undocking or redocking or the do-or-die engine burn from the return from Mars.

According to Tito, a middle-age couple, past their childbearing years would be the ideal crew members to make the journey in what can be best described as a space RV, a streamlined capsule with just 600 cubic feet of living space.Reuters TV reports

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