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A $100 Million Trip to the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can-get-cheese-in-wisconsin-cheaper dept.

Kyusaku Natsume writes "Russia's federal space agency will offer a $100m trip to the moon. From the UK Guardian's article:" "We've had the necessary technology for many years, the only problem will be finding someone prepared to pay that much." "

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  1. Space tourism and lottery by Arthur+B. · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It may not be easy to find someone willing to pay 100M$ for a trip around the moon. Isn't it waay easier to find 10M people in the world willing to pay 10$ to perhaps win a trip around the moon ? I know I would.

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    1. Re:Space tourism and lottery by AviLazar · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Good point. And some company will offer this. "Buy a 12$ raffle ticket."

      10$ (up to 50 million) goes to Russia. $1 per ticket goes to the company. The rest goes to charity? I would buy a ticket. And hey, they could also say "If we get enough for two trips, then there will be two winners."

      I don't know...that sounds a bit altruistic of me. More likely some company will sell the tickets for 15/pop and pocket any profits above the 50 mil.

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  2. Re:Not the first time by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's not... completely accurate.

    The Soyuz capsule was designed to travel to the moon as the Zond variant. The system was tested in the late 1960s, using the same type of Proton boosted soyuz capsules to orbit the moon and return, and did so with animals aboard that survived.

    But yes, other then being wrong in almost every other respect, you are correct when you say "They posted this idea before".

  3. Re:I've started a lottery by Teancum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, this is a neat idea on the whole. A time-limited lotto that was run by some formal lottery organization (not some random joe internet user like yourself... I'm sorry, but I have know idea who you are at the moment) where if not enough money was raised to cover the costs of the launch would then be donated to some "worthy" cause, or even a more conventional lotto drawing would occur + a trip to space (to orbit if $10 million were raised, or on Virgin Galactic if > $1 million were raised) if not enough money were raised through something like this.

    Lotteries of this nature were proposed by many early Science Fiction authors, including Heinlein and Asimov. The trick is to figure out how to tell the scam artists from legitimate operations.