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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Sonia Van Meter is the Managing Director of Stanford Caskey, a national Democratic opposition research firm. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband.”
Publicity stunt. Can’t blame her, as it’s obviously working.
I was thinking more of Stranger in a Strange Land.
Alice Kramden routinely “volunteered” for a trip to the moon.
I need to re-read Stranger in a Strange Land.
Actually, someone who’s 16 now.
No way they’ll be on Mars in 11 years.
I’d go, but the launch would probably kill me. I’m just too dang old.
Good deal for you.
She’s Orion. In the very first Star Trek pilot the green women were Orion slave girls.
Not in 11 years. But maybe in 20. Especially if Elon Musk is involved.
Me too. I go on a Heinlein kick from time to time, and it’s been quite a while. Fortunately, we have just about everything he wrote.
They better have impulse engines...there are only so many years between the samllest distance between our planets. Propellent won’t work. A nuclear powered engine is the only thing I can see working at this time.
Such a pity that the author of the post is not Wm. Jefferson Blythe Klinton!
Hahahah
This sounds like a Henny Youngman joke.
Now there is a good argument for going.
Damn people, where is your sense of adventure. To be the first humans to travel to Mars. There’s water there, so they can grow food and manufacture O2.
And in the end, we all die, all of us, no one gets out alive.
She may just stand on another planet and have a beautiful experience, or not.
You may get hit by a car before she even leaves.
Well said. Let people do what they want. This is ambitious for sure, and risky, but that's nothing new to mankind.
I say "more power to them". I'm envious.
I hate NYC but one day drove there and visited just the world trade center and took my 13 year old daughter to the roof restaurant for dinner, we watched the sun set over the city from up there and then drove home. We will always remember that day, and evening, the sun setting over the city, the lights coming on.
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