It might sound like a weird cross between a hollywood storyline and a Craigslist personal add, but non profit organization Inspiration Mars Foundation is seeking a man and a woman to take part in a 501-day mission to Mars.
When President Bush announced an initiative to land a man on Mars by 2050 during the election campaign in 2004, he was ridiculed for that.
Not a lot to smile about at Dodger Stadium except a Korean pitcher named Hyun-Jin Ryu who looks good and a Korean entertainer named Psy who comes to a game to dance in the aisles between innings while a wide-eyed Tommy Lasorda looks at him like he's a man from Mars.
"Man makes or mars an organization, " he wrote in the first issue of his new magazine.
This, the old man explained, was Mars, and the blue globes were the disembodied souls and intellects of Martians who had lived long ago.
Yet this is a race, and whoever is the first to fulfill various objectives, such as being the first to send a man into orbit or a probe to Mars, garners more prestige.
The films, showing man in space, on the Moon, on Mars, and the "unknown", fascinated the boy Rutan.
Where once America could land a man on the moon, now it is reduced to sending WallE to Mars.
The U.S. perfect it with putting a man on the man, then with a series of modern high tech space shuttle missions and Mars ROVERS. But now, the final frontier captains are more likely to be Russians, with their hopes for a human Mars landing someday, or Chinese, with a new China space station due within the next 8 years.
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Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars stayed at six and seven with I Knew You Were Trouble and When I Was Your Man respectively.
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