Space tourists offered 'holy grail of spaceflight'
You don't have to be an astronaut anymore to experience walking in space. All you need is $35 million and the willingness to risk your life.
A private Virginia firm that already has sent three super-rich men to the international space station for $20 million each announced Friday it would offer an even rarer adventure: A stroll outside the space station for an extra $15 million.
"It is the holy grail of spaceflight; it's something very few of the astronauts and cosmonauts have done," said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures Ltd.
Added former NASA spacewalker Kathy Thornton, who is on the firm's advisory board: "It's just sort of the feeling of freedom, that you are your own satellite."
With the blessing of the Russian space agency, Space Adventures is arranging for the first spacewalking tourist to go into orbit in about a year or so, Anderson said.
The trip would involve a launch in a Soyuz capsule, an eight-day stay aboard the international space station and a 90-minute spacewalk in a Russian spacesuit. An extra month would be added to the six-month cosmonaut training.
Captain Flak Paperpants, a Wand of Wonder contributing blogger, well known space-enthusiast and complete friggin' geekball, was quoted by WoW as saying "JESUS H. FUCKME, someone get me 35 million smackeroons... STAT!"
Spacewalks for sale! Spacewalks for sale! Get yer spacewalks here!
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Posted by Captain Flak Paperpants at 12:37 PM
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You people make me sick.
It's the end of ends and all you want is 35 million smackeroons to do a space walk?? A SPACE WALK!?!??!?!
me thinks the captain left a puddle in his spacesuit
Fuckin A.
Would that keep him warmer in his space suite? I hear it's pretty cold in space.....
It is... very... cold... in space.
KHHAAAAAAAN!!!
OMG $35 millins could feed lots of mouths!
I don't know If I want to smile or cry.
I like the article I posted at my blog yesterday about sex in space.
Just recreate it in a plane, man $35 millin is lot of money lol
you know for people with low income there is nothing better than Trading spaces...
Cheap ideas to mislead the expensive eye lol
I WAS FUCKING KIDDING PEOPLE. If I had 35 million dollars, I wouldn't spend it all on a fucking space trip. Obviously, I'd buy a $35 million dollar car. Then, I'd activate my car's wings and I'd fly away. OK!?!?!?!
Space doesn't even exists. It's another lever of hope used by the Brandenburg group to keep us dumb and wishing for better things... with stars!
Exactly. I HEART MY FLAT EARTH.
I love the picture. And I LOVE you! Kisses!! Awwww! I love everyone!
I WUV U 2, MURKY-WURKY!
cough cough... ask Armstrong what he saw up there lol maybe he can describe more than US flag.
oh I get the joke, don't worry...
I believe earth is round, by reading the book I never get the picture earth is flat, I get the picture that they are speaking of the 4 cardinal points, but it doesn't matter lol people need something to reject something lol it'll have to dolol
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