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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. Brains and beauty by geoswan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone who makes a crack about brains and beauty never occurring in the same person should look into the life of Hedy Lamarr. Oh, there a pictures too. Ms Lamarr was one of the patent holders of an important ww2 patent. She also sued Corel for using an uncredited likeness of her on the cover of one of their flagship software products.