A one-way trip to the Red Planet would take nine months but a return journey would be around three years.
Even with the Convoy! of space trucks needed for Mars you just know some white bro (eventually the only ones to be allowed) is gonna forget his glasses or Dude wipes.
I’m not confident at all this will even reach beyond planning stage. Billionaires with more money than brains, as they say. NASA could do so much more with the b/tr illions than putting humans on Mars. And as Gary said, where is the money coming from?