Sonia Van Meter was chosen as one of 100 people to go on a possible trip to Mars. As the trip would be one way, her husband is opening up about never seeing her again…
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.
Not surprisingly, people not involved in the couple’s life have strong opinions about the matter, and how she can abandon her family like this. Jason’s response is, “this is bigger than me.”
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Jason, "OK... Well then I'm going to start exploring too"
ReplyDeleteShould have been the response. May also just be NASA PR cover. Do one quick story before they file. I would.
You have to open the article to see the picture. More specifically the ear to ear grin on the husbands face. He says, "This is bigger than me" as he becomes the only man to have a marriage with a countdown timer.
ReplyDeleteit will never happen. its a total smoke screen.
ReplyDeleteIt has already happened.An entire colony of humans lived on Mars.The smokescreen is that NASA was able to pull that off without the public knowing it.
ReplyDeleteIs it too late to sign my wife up?
ReplyDeleteits a suicide mission. The first couple sets of people will be lab rats.
ReplyDeleteShe will be 46 and unable to procreate, what is the point of her going there?
ReplyDeleteWe need to sign up the Clinton's and the Obama's.
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