SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR GRAVITY-FREE SEX IN THE SPACE HOTEL THEY’RE BUILDING

If you happen to have an extra $100 million lying around you will soon be able to buy a round-trip ticket around the moon and back. A Virginian company called Space Adventures has already sent two tourists into space and has plans to partner with the Russian space agency in order to offer 10 to 21 day moon orbit tours by 2008. Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures, figures there are between 500 and 1,000 people in the world who could afford the $100 million ticket. But before you blow your wad you should know that the journey would be cramped and extremely unpleasant, as you’ll be holed up for a few weeks in a space capsule with about as much passenger room as an SUV. The two previous space tourists, who paid $20 million each to orbit the earth, both complained bitterly and wanted to cut their vacations short, comparing their trip to spending “14 days in a men’s room.” (New York Times)