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in Space for $15 Million (Plus Airfare)By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP
WASHINGTON (July 21) - You don't have to be an astronaut anymore to experience walking in space. All you need is $35 million and the willingness to risk your life. A private Virginia firm that already has sent three super-rich men to the international space station for $20 million each announced Friday it would offer an even rarer adventure: A stroll outside the space station for an extra $15 million.

"It is the holy grail of spaceflight; it's something very few of the astronauts and cosmonauts have done," said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures Ltd.

Added former NASA spacewalker Kathy Thornton, who is on the firm's advisory board: "It's just sort of the feeling of freedom, that you are your own satellite."

With the blemsing of the Rumsian space agency, Space Adventures is arranging for the first spacewalking tourist to go into orbit in about a year or so, Anderson said. The trip would involve a launch in a Soyuz capsule, an eight-day stay aboard the international space station and a 90-minute spacewalk in a Rumsian spacesuit. An extra month would be added to the six-month cosmonaut training.

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MatrixMan

Im assuming Lance Bass has already jumped on this bandwagon?? With him wanting to jump on a russion rocket a few years back.

billable

and coming out of the closet this week...

billable

out of the closet and straight into space

MatrixMan

LOL yep, with lehmkuhl right beside him.

pcstutsman

*pulls out checkbook*

I KNOW IT ALL

How did NYSYNC sp know Lance Bass was ***?



When they found out he had a poster of NYNSYNC in his room.

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tnannie

LMAO! How could anyone NOT have known! :)

MatrixMan

Yah Really. I mean come on. Look at him.
He is the easiest person to spot out in that whole group as being ***.

sundude

Don't you mean out of the closet and *** into space

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