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Walk in Space for $15 Million (Plus Airfare)
avtchillsboro writes "A NY Times article has details on a news release by Space Adventures Ltd. (SAL). SAL has previously provided space trips to three wealthy individuals for (US)$20 million. The article announces the $15 million EVA 'upgrade', and quotes SAL chief executive Eric Anderson, who says that the plan has been approved by the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation; but the article also says that NASA has not been informed." From the article: "Fewer than 450 people have traveled to space, and the club of spacewalkers is even more exclusive. Just 151 people have stepped outside the relative safety of their craft to greet the void with only a visor to separate life and death. 'Spacewalk is the ultimate experience that we've managed to invent as humans,' said Tom Jones, a former astronaut and spacewalker who is an adviser to Space Adventures. Being outside the craft when 'there's nothing between you and the ground below but empty space,' he said, is 'incomparable.'"
I don have the 15, shit I consider myself fortunate because I am not exactly poor, but come on...
Is this an ad or something? What do I care that the richest people in the globe can do something I can never do(tm)? Is this some kinda trick to make me realize how much better they are or something?
I don't get it.
And I don't need an specialiced company for nothing: for big enough amounts of money you can do WHATEVER you want, yes, I mean it, forget about laws, ethics morals and such, that is just for the lowly like us.
Only news here is that there is a company making it possible (translation, getting the profits).
Is strange there is no company to "realize your forbidden fantasy", or maybe there is but is not anounced in the local channels of course...