What Dennis Tito might learn from Apollo 8

 Following the announcement of a privately-funded mission to fly around Mars and back I have written a post on the Huffington Post reflecting on the legacies of Apollo 8, the first manned journey to another world.

 

 

 

On the Anniversary of Apollo 8
And so, with a single, masterful PR stroke, Mars has been restored to the reachable horizons of human spaceflight. Millionaire financier and engineer Dennis Tito has announced an optimistically budgeted plan to launch a middle-aged married couple on a flyby mission to the planet in early January 2018, returning them to Earth a year and a half later. […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kendrick-oliver/on-the-anniversary-of-apollo-8_b_2854178.html (12th October)