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No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says
mknewman writes with disappointing news for anyone with the money that it would have cost to fly as a space tourist, excerpting a story that says "Russia's space chief says there won't be any more tourists headed to the international space station after this year. Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that there will be no room for paying tourists because the space station's crew is expanding from three members to six."
So much for my dream of posting from space.
They can say whatever they want - in reality, there's always gonna be enough room for Benjamin Franklin...(or enough of them!)
In Soviet Russia, jokes queue you.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Honestly you can't blame them. They had a slew of obnoxious tourists who got really drunk and trashed the aft section of the station. It was so bad they had to detach the entire section and crash it into the pacific ocean.
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I've been saving my pocket money for this, and I was so close to having enough! I only need another $19,996,142 to reach my $20 million dollar goal, but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll reach that amount before the end of the year.
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Vladimir Putin will use his huge swinging Russian dick to catapault stupid Yankee paying tourists into orbit.
Good call... no, great call
Plus, Russia still needs money, I'm sure they'd take some kind of offer. This is more like saying: "this price has gone up... way up"
Yeah, because they could not have just set the price to whatever they wanted...I mean they'd have to be the only ones offering space tourism, like some sort of a monopoly, to do that... Oh wait, they are....
-Em
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