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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essentially she has just divorced him in ten years. bye-bye.
if it were me i’d tell her she could leave right now.
hes lucky, shes the one leaving and probably dying very soon afterwards.
considering how much bone density she will lose in space, not like she can do anything physical f they even make it there.
everything involves risk.
stupid things often involve incredible amounts of it. this is one of them.
Why not?
Vanguard to Apollo was 7 years, and they won't be feeding the 'great society" on the way.
Recent girlfriend can go...pretty sure she’s a Martian.
I was making a joke, but you could be right. (lol “To the moon, Alice”)
It’s not like they are going to Tahiti...sunshine, palm trees, warm oceans.
Mars...Dry, very cold, and pretty much lifeless and no chance for rescue should things go bad.
This is one of those things where you set up a station in small increments before you start populating it.
We will have to agree to disagree, she will have only 20-30 left in her life anyway.
If she makes it to Mars and stands on it’s surface she will have a beautiful experience. She will die there, but so what we all die, here or there does it really matter?
I brought that up to my wife once. She pointed out that I'm not wired for 220...
Too bad more ex-wives haven't volunteered.
Wife: “I volunteered for a future one-way trip to Mars.”
Me: “Fine, I’ll help you pack - today.”
ACK!
ACK ACK!
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