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]

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]

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]

Talk about expedible income.

[KillTheMessenger]

Big boys and their toys. :-)

[Tator]

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]

Did something make a noise? I heard a pop!