A team led by millionaire and former space tourist Dennis Tito plans to send a "tested couple" to Mars and back in a privately funded mission. [1]

The Inspiration Mars Foundation plans to start its one-and-a-half-year mission in January 2018. The mission planners wanted the crew to consist of an older couple whose relationship would be able to withstand the stress of living in a confined environment for two years.

What more romantic, than travelling your last - (possibly) fatal - journey along with your loved one. I really envy the ones selected.

But wait a minute...

Aren'e we all doing the same "journey" every day?