What Would It be like to Travel to Mars in Orion?

- Traveling to Mars would be incredible. It would be, with current technologies, approximately eight months in transit; you'd be on the surface for a year, year and half; and then another eight months back. So it'd be, like, a three-year mission. And it'd kind of be taking a road trip with, well, three of your best friends. You'd hopefully have, you know, a camper attached, so another Mars transfer spacecraft, perhaps, to give you some more space to conduct experiments and work in your lander. But other than that, you'd mostly have to be able to, well, survive in confined quarters; to exercise and work out to keep yourself fit so that way, when you got onto the planet, you'd be able to get out, put on those space suits, walk around; and to always be, you know, kept intellectually challenged, solving problems, maintaining the spacecraft. And, well, just like you have to clean your room, we have to make sure we do housekeeping and keep everything maintained.