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Third Space Tourist is Set

Posted by michael on from the can't-take-it-with-you dept.

Sgt York writes "Space Adventures announced yesterday that Gregory Olsen will be their next private space tourism client. He paid $20M to hop on a Soyuz, sometime by 2005, and go spend some time on the ISS. The cool thing is, he's not just playing tourist. He's the CEO of Sensors Unlimited, has a MS in physics, and a PhD in materials science. He's planning on using the trip to 'help inspire today's youth to dream big' and conduct a few experiments, including testing out some of his company's equipment. SA is billing him as his own 'private space program.'" There's also a space.com story.

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  1. For 20 million dollars by ForestGrump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He could buy 8-12 acres of land in PRIME Silicon Valley...and be a billionare in 50 years.

    Heak, hes old so whats that investment gonna do for him?

    -Grump

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  2. Re:Is this news? by nate1138 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm very interested in your experiments on zero-g rectal methane ignition technologies. I would be willing to fund such a venture assuming that all resultant Intellectual Property would be transferred to my new startup, AssTech, LLC.

    Oh, wait, the 90's are over and I don't just give a pile of cash to anyone shooting ideas out of his ass anymore ;-)

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