Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans first-ever private trip to the ISS

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is about to join an extremely short list of space tourists, according to reports. The search engine-kingpin just dropped a $5 million dollar "investment" on the company Space Adventures, which all but guarantees him a seat on the outfit's next flight in 2011. The trip aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket will take Brin to the ISS in the first-ever private flight to the station (Ubuntu head Mark Shuttleworth has made the trip, though not on a private mission). The company stresses that the ride will be less about tourism and more about commercial exploration, with passengers bringing aboard experiments and taking part in flight operations. Now the only riddle left to solve is whether the last Cylon is Brin or Bezos.

Engadget.

Cool.

 

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I'm surprised more rich people don't do that. I realize that a movie star doesn't make as much money as Brin, but surely you'd think that there would be more people willing to spend $5m to fly to the ISS. Hell, Oprah probably farts more money than that every time she gets off her seat.

 

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I'm surprised more rich people don't do that. I realize that a movie star doesn't make as much money as Brin, but surely you'd think that there would be more people willing to spend $5m to fly to the ISS. Hell, Oprah probably farts more money than that every time she gets off her seat.

remember columbia? It's not sure that you arrive back on earth.