Posted on 08/02/2015 5:32:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A Virginia man has opened up about what it's like having a wife who volunteered to be part of the controversial Mars One mission - and the fact that, in just a few years, he and his sons are expected to say goodbye to her forever.
Jason Stanford refers to himself as an 'astronaut wife', because his actual wife and stepmother to his two sons, Sonia Van Meter, 36, was one of the people chosen for the Mars One Project, a privately-funded one-way mission which hopes to establish a permanent human colony on the red planet.
The first Mars One mission is slated to launch in 2026 - amid widespread criticism from scientists and space luminaries - with four people to touch down, and then another four every two years from there.
However Stanford and his wife - who live in Alexandria, Virginia, with his sons Henry, 13, and Hatcher, 11 - support the mission, and he has now accepted his own role as part of the process.
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Insanity is alive and well in VA.
If we had kids all off planet adventures would be on hold until they were 20.
he does know her main function is to have sex and bear children... right?
"Van Meter, a political consultant, is married to Stanford and stepmother to his sons Henry, 13, and Hatcher, 11. They live in Alexandria, Virginia"
Makes perfect sense. Who wouldn't choose a political consultant to be one of the first colonist to another planet?
Sounds a little like a B-Ark I read something about once...
This is the space version of the Jamestown Settlement, a suicide mission. Always must be a return-to-Earth strategy. Jamestown failed, but Plymouth succeeded (barely) because the “mother ship,” the Mayflower, stood offshore and provided shelter & provisions through the winter for the Pilgrims. It also provided a return-to-England capability, plus multiple & continuing return trips by other vessels. A one-shot “fly and die” program is foolish and stupid. Humankind must be better than this.
If you may not coming back, have infrequent resupply, and if there is a fair chance that you will be abandoned due to funding or mechanical failure, better a mature non fertile woman.
Seems to me, most women in a loveless marriage would have affairs or file
For divorce. A one way ticket to Mars is the ultimate fail, dude.
Okay, at least they had some hope of food and water. Where are the basic necessities on Mars? How will her leaving the planet benefit her and her family?
Haven’t the Islamists banned space travel for Muslims?
Yeah, that is a good argument.
: snort! :
I think this is more like Roanoke.
We are marooned here on Earth.
But it is premature. We should try terraforming for a few centuries first.
Yeah, but I think she wanted to tell him something now. Something subtle, like... she'd rather die on Mars than be with him.
You know... nuance...
I think she’ll find a lot of reasons not to go as we get closer to the date.
She could quit as she’s getting into the capsule and I’m sure no one would stop her. If she quit during the final count, they’d find a way to shut down the engines and get her out. If they design an abort and re-entry system for the sake of a flubbed launch, I bet they’d use it to bring her back if she quit as the ship is climbing away. Same goes for anyone on the mission with her. If anyone in the crew decided to bail prior to trans-Martian insertion, no one goes.
I’ll bet we could design rovers or ‘bots that could what a group of stranded humans could do on Mars.
That was a fun movie. I suppose Deja Thoris is now officially/technically a “Disney Princess.”
She she Soylent?
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