Google Space: Sergey Brin Makes Down Payment On Soyuz Space Flight

New York Times:

Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more.

A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures' 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight.

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Comments

[LeonBNJ]

01:49 PM on 06/11/2008

I wish instead of wanting to take a joyride into space for all that money, this guy would take that money and put it into schlorships for American students to specialize in engineering in college. That could help a lot of young people afford to become engineers, something the USA's employers badly need.

[KillTheMessenger]

02:17 PM on 06/11/2008

Just raise the H1B quota. It works, it's quick and you get first class education for free. The rest of the world has been paying for it. Every H1B is a million dollar value, easily. So by admitting 250,000 a year, it's like getting $250 billion for absolutely free. US youth can go and work at Walmart. Or become attorneys and stock brokers. Or Hollywood starlets with a drug problem. That's what they want to do in life, anyway.

[Obamican7]

01:01 PM on 06/11/2008

Talk about expedible income.

[KillTheMessenger]

10:56 AM on 06/11/2008

Big boys and their toys. :-)

[Tator]

10:02 AM on 06/11/2008

224-Sergey Brin should just ask the Chinese to give him a ride for free since he is very Liberal and he provided private information to capture and censor folks in China trying to bring democracy there. Typical Liberal=Socialism/Communism GOOD.....Democracy=BAD (except for Liberal elites).

[KillTheMessenger]

10:56 AM on 06/11/2008

Did something make a noise? I heard a pop!