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<p>A drawing provided by Inspiration Mars shows an artist?s conception of a spacecraft envisioned by the private group, which wants to send a married couple on a mission to fly by the red planet and zip back home, beginning in 2018. The nonprofit ?Inspiration Mars? will get initial money from multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. Outsiders put the price tag at more than $1 billion. The mission, announced Wednesday would last more than 16 months.</p>

<p>A drawing provided by Inspiration Mars shows an artist?s conception of a spacecraft envisioned by the private group, which wants to send a married couple on a mission to fly by the red planet and zip back home, beginning in 2018. The nonprofit ?Inspiration Mars? will get initial money from multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the first space tourist. Outsiders put the price tag at more than $1 billion. The mission, announced Wednesday would last more than 16 months.</p&…

February 28, 2013

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Rocket to Mars
February 28, 2013 8 p.m.

Rocket to Mars

Tycoon proposes to send couple to red planet

WASHINGTON - In less than five years, a married couple could be on their way toward Mars in an audacious but bare-bones private mission that would slingshot them around the red planet, under a plan announced Wednesday by a financial tycoon and his team.