Dennis Tito: 'The goal is to find the right married couple'
Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has unveiled ambitious plans to send a man and a woman near planet Mars in January 2018.
He is looking for a mature married to make the the 501-day flight that will go within 100 miles of the martian surface before swinging back to Earth.
He told ITV News that it would be hard, but was 'do-able' with the right couple.
ITV News Science and Medical Editor Lawrence McGinty reports:
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