Ailiailia wrote:Getting there and getting back is a lot harder than just getting there.
Previous missions (eg Pathfinder and Explorer) have landed payloads much heavier than a person (274 kg and 185 kg), gently enough for a living human to survive. However, they took six months to get there. For a live human cargo that would mean quite a lot of life support, but maybe that's OK. The earlier missions also delivered another 600 kg to Mars orbit: the life support that needs to go to Mars surface is a lot less, 600 kg is probably enough for the life support to Mars orbit. Then the passenger goes down in an Explorer-type lander with just a space suit and a camera, short range transmitter to communicate with the orbiter, and a silly little flag to plant. They prance around until they run out of oxygen, then die. If you think no-one will volunteer for that you're crazy.
But even easier than that is getting a human body to Mars and landing it hard. Long before anyone walks on Mars, someone could be buried there.
Good thing they're saying the chances of you ever coming back are essentially nil.
Anyways OP, nothing will come of this.