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$100m for a trip to the moon, alice!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050810/.../space_tourism
NEW YORK - The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the
International Space Station is planning a new mission: rocketing people around the far side of the moon.
The price of a round-trip ticket: $100 million.
The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens.
This is how manned space travel should be: at the expense of billionaire spendthrifts whom no one would miss if the spacecraft malfunctioned.
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If I start saving now... with 19.9 percent interest on my credit card...who cares... do they take American Express?
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just a few more years with this iPod pyramid scheme and I'll be set!
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I wonder how many people will get the reference in the title of this thread.
I think I'll save my pennies for at least a sub-orbital trip. And there's always the lottery!
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Didn't that kid from *NSYNC already try this?
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Do you get a few bags of peanuts at least?
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