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In Space, No One Knows You Read Vogue

Posted by chrisd on from the space-needs-women dept.

Chad Coffman writes "Salon has quite the story up. It seems Russian astronauts are trolling for supermodels as passengers for their space program." I guess Tito nor Shuttleworth were cute enough for Valery Korzun. May I suggest Courreges or Gaultier for space-suit designer? I'll leave the weight allowance jokes as an exercise for the reader.

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  1. I am trying by Frantactical+Fruke · · Score: 5, Funny
    Trying to bite back some quip about Russians
    attempting to get the most bang for their bucks.


    Guess I failed. Sigh.

  2. Because supermodels are "cheaper" by AtomicBomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems Russian astronauts are trolling for supermodels as passengers
    It makes good sense. In terms of payload, probably you can send 2 supermodels for same weight as Tito.

    ATTN NASA:
    Maybe sending me up the space is not such a bad idea. (A gnome shorter than 5'3" who can use both micropipette and computer program. )