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If NASA put out the word that it was looking for volunteers to suit up for the first manned mission to Mars, the line outside Cape Canaveral might stretch from there to the moon.

But what if they said it was a nine-month trip on a cramped spaceship and there was a possibility you wouldn't be coming home?

Despite the possibility of those conditions, at least 400 brave souls have said "yes" in response to a new book, "The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet" (Cosmology Science Publishers).

The book is a combined effort of more than 70 scientists, detailing the steps leading up to a successful human mission to the red planet, including all the possible ways in which people would be affected by a lengthy, seven- to nine-month space flight, radiation, zero gravity on their bodies and minds, and how to cope with any viruses or microbes found on Mars.

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