Thursday, August 11, 2005





Private Company Plans $100 Million Tour Around the Moon

"The space-faring tourists will travel with a Russian pilot. They will steer clear of the greater technical challenge of landing on the Moon, instead circling it and returning to Earth." (Via Sauceruney.)

Circling the Moon in a Soyuz -- now we're talking!
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5 comments:

Unknown said...

I think that if they can get to the moon for $100 million dollars, someone should be able to land on it for half as much more (cost wise) or less.

Okay. No. You'd have to send your lander up in a separate trip. $100 million for the lander, $100 million for you and the soyuz capsule... you dock over the moon, get in and land... take off and go home...

so I figure for $250 million you could go to the moon and spend a few nights on the surface. I think the Russians would go along just because they never actually made it in the first place. It would be a delicious irony if they were able to help commercialize something NASA has kept to itself.

10:20 PM
Gerald T said...

Wasn’t there a massive blast of solar radiation that happened in-between Apollo missions?
A blast that would have given the crew a lethal dose if the had been in transit when It happened?

I can see it now, ‘Paris Hilton and friends, fried in space!’

Yea, this nutty idea wont last long,

2:05 AM
Gerald T said...

Wasn’t there a massive blast of solar radiation that happened in-between Apollo missions?
A blast that would have given the crew a lethal dose if the had been in transit when It happened?

I can see it now, ‘Paris Hilton and friends, fried in space!’

Yea, this nutty idea wont last long,

2:06 AM
Gerald T said...

Did i just stutter?

2:07 AM
Mac said...

Body odor. Good point, there...

3:31 PM

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