Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface

thepooleboy writes "Looks like N'Sync member Lance Bass is NOT going to be shot into space! Yahoo News reports that Rosaviakosmos has not begun talks with Bass or MirCorp. "[Bass' flight] is just an advertising stunt, I can promise you," Spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said. "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for." Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."

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people worth sending into space.

[Alien54]

Personally, I think that there people that it would be worth sending into space.

Although there is the question of who should we send to stay, and who gets to come back. Sending certain overly rich folks such as Bill Gates or Michael Jackson to space to stay only invites comparison to certain old Justin Powers tv episodes (from the series that never existed, yet)

Any nominations for people to send to space and leave there? People to send to space and return for the benefit of mankind?

Re:boy band members wanted

[ArtDent]

I think I'd be perfect. I'm in my mid-twenties, but I can easily pass for 16.

I can't sing; I can't dance. I definately can't write songs or play any instruments. Hell, I can barely dress myself.

Where do I sign up?

Send Up Rich People, Get Space Commercialization

[Somnus]

If wealthy folks want to shell out big $$ to shoot themselves up into space, better for us -- they are voluntarily subsidizing manned space flight, and by extension space research, for the benefit of mankind. This is one step towards commercializing (and thereby individualizing) space development.

Am I the only one who's disappointed?

[Neuracnu Coyote]

Yes yes, we all know that Lance Bass is a rich popstar twit and we loathe to think that he can get a ride on the space station and we can't. Boo-freakin'-hoo.

Last time I checked, just about everybody here was 100% for space-tourism. Shooting Lance's jiggy ass up there is going to promote that just as much as it is his crappy band. Just be thankful that he wasn't going to be the first. Personally, I'd love to see as many tourists up there as we can get with an orbiting Hilton to house them all.

Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space

I guess he was

[thumbtack]

Out of Sync with the mission goals.

In Space, no one can hear N'Synch. . . .

[Salgak1]

. . .and now we take you to the ISS, sometime in the future. . . .

(Lance Bass): Excuse me, Mister Astronaut, but after all this Tang(tm), I gotta whizz something awful. Where's the john up here ???

(Astronaut): Certainly.... go through that round hatch, close it, and spin the wheel. When the light turns red, press the big red button on the wall, and the door will open to the waste disposal area. . . .

(a minute goes by)

(outside view) Lance Bass's corpse floating in vacuum

And people think spending money on the ISS is a waste (evil grin)

You want to get the Earth destroyed?

[wowbagger]

Come on people, think this one through!

We are already under a strict "No Contact" ban in the Galactic Confederation - we go shooting NSync members into space and we will downgraded from "Not ready for contact" to "Dangerous - destroy immediately".