How amazing would it be to go up into space, experience zero-g and to look back at our home planet and see how small we really are in the context of the universe.
The Russian space program offers trips to the International Space Station. There have been five space tourists who have undertaken this trip before. The next person to go up to the ISS in October of this year is Richard Garriot - a Game desginer. The last one to go up was Charles Simonyi - a software company executive. Richard Garriot is paying 30 million dollars for this. Quite an astonishing amount of money to be paid by one man for one trip.
Is this a waste of money? I personally think there are much more productive ways to spend that kind of money. For starters he could help millions of unfortunate people on Earth instead of riding off on his dream voyage. He could help starving people. He could donate it to disease research. There are many benefits 30 MILLION DOLLARS can bring!!!!
In the end it isn't my decision, I'm just wondering how the last two to go up are people in the software business!!! I want to be next!!!...hehe.
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