Sending a Transgender Taxi Driver to Mars

On this episode of VICE Profiles, we meet Melissa, the unlikely astronaut, to understand what motivates a person to relocate to another, unknown planet. Having never found a reason to move from England, she now has the opportunity to make history as the first transgender person to step foot on Mars. Up Next: VICE on HBO: Our Rising Oceans - http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-Rising-Oceans Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideos Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our Tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice