First manned mission to Mars should be all women?

On Oct 24, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers] wrote:

> This is why I've never been too impressed by the "they'll go nuts cooped
> up for 8 months" argument. If you can't find half a dozen people who
> would be perfectly happy cooped up for that long, you're not looking
> very hard.

Heres the trick: predicting in advance which people will get along over the long haul.
joe@strout.net
[spacesettlers] <
spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
This is why I've never been too impressed by the "they'll go nuts cooped

up for 8 months" argument. If you can't find half a dozen people who

would be perfectly happy cooped up for that long, you're not looking

very hard.
Heres the trick: predicting in advance which people will get along over the long haul.