Singer Reportedly Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat

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Singer Reportedly Outbids NASA for Space Tourist's Seat

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 3, 2012 @11:25AM from the money-well-spent dept.

RocketAcademy writes "ABC News is reporting that Phantom of the Opera singer/actress Sarah Brightman outbid NASA for a seat on a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. Brightman reportedly paid more than $51 million. If that story is true, there may be some interesting bidding wars in the future."

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Music Video by PlastikMissle · 2012-10-03 11:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Now she can re-shoot "I Lost my Heart to a Starship Trooper" .... in space!
Re:More important... by Githaron · 2012-10-03 11:52 · Score: 1, Funny

That is what credit is for!
Re:More important... by user32.ExitWindowsEx · 2012-10-03 12:24 · Score: 4, Funny

ex-husband...so that means the round trip price is $102 million

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Re:More important... by plover · 2012-10-03 12:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh, snapski!

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Re:More important... by sumdumass · 2012-10-03 12:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe her husband is banking on it being an effective one way trip and saving money in the long run?
Re:More important... by machine321 · 2012-10-03 13:08 · Score: 4, Funny

To the moon, Sarah!
Re:More important... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-03 14:31 · Score: 0, Funny

The Russian rockets are using petrol now? Wow, they really are in hard times now!
Re:More important... by wonkey_monkey · 2012-10-03 18:20 · Score: 4, Funny

we might as well build our own space station.
With blackjack! And hookers!

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