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Space Weddings: The Final Frontier

msnbc.msn.com — Space Adventures President and CEO Eric Anderson struck a deal with the Russians to carry space tourists aloft. But now, Anderson wants his company to have its own spacecraft, one able to carry two customers at a time.

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  • ScottMcIntyre, on 10/01/2008, -0/+27To matrimonial infinity and beyond... :-)
  • upick, on 10/01/2008, -0/+26Didn't Richard Branson start up his space travel packages yet?
    Anyways at a $100,000,000 a passenger I think I'll pass
  • inactive, on 10/01/2008, -2/+23Talk about your 30 Mile High Club.
  • FlyingPhotog, on 10/01/2008, -0/+21What would be cool is if they let you consummate the marriage in space.
  • AmyVernon, on 10/01/2008, -0/+19Wedding in space? Now that would be cool
  • divinediva, on 10/01/2008, -0/+19If there were ways to create new fuels, that would be very useful. We’ve reached kind of the limit of what chemical fuels can do.
  • Ricochetbiscuit, on 10/01/2008, -0/+14Till death do we part or at least until we get back into Earth's atmosphere... then I'm jettisoning your ass. :)
  • MacBookForMe, on 10/01/2008, -0/+13It won't last longer, or...? :)
  • BeShirtHappy, on 10/01/2008, -0/+12Before you know it weddings in space will replace Vegas weddings. Especially if they have an Elvis impersonator along for the ride. :) Well the price tag would have to come down, of course,
  • shutaro, on 10/01/2008, -0/+12I hope they have an open bar... It's just not a space wedding without space rum.
  • Cancerkitty, on 10/01/2008, -0/+9I would think that the lack of gravity would either make it a lot more fun, or a lot more work. Jury's still out on that.
  • granolajoe, on 10/01/2008, -0/+7You better be damn sure you want to marry if you're all the way up in space. There's no escape.
  • jer2eydevil88, on 10/02/2008, -0/+7You just stay up there and find creative ways to enjoy the low gravity.
  • reincarnate, on 10/01/2008, -0/+6i'll wait till its affordable. like $9000.
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/01/2008, -0/+5Yeah, but at least this time you can toss her out the airlock.
  • Mataroo, on 10/01/2008, -1/+6***** A. A new place to dump your bride at the alter.
  • AmyVernon, on 10/01/2008, -0/+5Oh, I wish I'd thought of that.
  • arjie, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5Open the bride bay door, HAL?
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/01/2008, -0/+5Problem is, where do you go on your honeymoon to top that?
  • pitdog, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!
  • inactive, on 10/01/2008, -0/+4"What were you thinking when you married that idiot?"
    "I don't know, I was on the ninth sky"
  • RealmDown, on 10/02/2008, -0/+4Groom: Houston, we have hard dock.
    Bride: NASA ! We need more thrust!
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/01/2008, -0/+4Sounds cool until you find out they have to strap retros do your ***** and a team at NASA has to guide you in. Tends to ruin the moment.
  • ptsuk, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3Dude you're sooooo thinking like is 1g. ITs zero g! the possibilities and positions are endless! The worse thing you could do is go to space and do the old vanilla positions.
  • inactive, on 10/01/2008, -0/+3as if weddings weren't stupid and expensive enough... now this?
    get married under a ***** tree. spend the money on something that doesn't have a 72% chance of being a complete waste.
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/01/2008, -0/+2..... again....
  • aigulf, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2I'm still hoping for the space elevator.
  • t3hmyth, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Pointless.
  • spunkmyer, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Mental note: Shotgun weddings and Space craft are no-no's.
  • AdeleMor, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2hmmm. This is totally a bad Adam Sandler comedy in the making.
  • Testies, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2It used to be that you were royally screwed by wedding costs. Now you will be ASTRONOMICALLY screwed.
    Unless you are Italian. Then it's a gift from "uncle Vito and the family".
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2horrible fluxion, simply horrible. ;)
  • freezerburn666, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2don't let the stank out!
  • s4g4n, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Let me guess, the honey moon will be held on the "actual" moon?
  • jkusnetz, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Discover Magazine did an interview with him. I sent in a letter to the editor and it sounds like Discover will publish it:
    "Thank you for your letter to DISCOVER Magazine, we appreciate our reader's feedback.

    We are planning on publishing your letter in our next issue..."

    Here is what I wrote:


    Why not make it a lottery. 250,000 $1,000 tickets. Grand prize, orbit around the moon. 5 runner up prizes, orbit around the earth. Could you get 250,000 people to pay $1,000 for a 1 in 42,000 chance of getting into space?
    I would play! How about you?
  • AgmLauncher, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2What happens in space, stays in space?
  • tolbs, on 10/02/2008, -0/+2Fly me to the moon

    /Sinatra
  • jjmac, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Call me when they sell space consummation.
  • TBombadil, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1I think ***** in space is more like the final frontier, but hey, w/e
  • GemStar38, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1hmmm, lack of gravity....
  • BXRWXR, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Ralph Kramden would have loved it.
  • aigulf, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1If I read correctly, that $100,000,000 is for a trip around the moon...I have to imagine that getting to the ISS is at least an order of magnitude cheaper (given that the distance traveled is 3 orders of magnitude less -- 387km vs. 384,000km).

    Anyone know the figure on a week-long trip to the ISS?
  • n666, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Will be hard to cut the floating cake...
  • BigManOnCampus, on 10/01/2008, -0/+1I'm thinking it would put a lot of the work on the woman's side of things as they're the only ones who can get any leverage down there and have it still work out if both of you are free-floating and facing each other. On the other hand, doggie-style now becomes extremely comfortable for her and more work for the guy as she doesn't have to hold herself up and he has to control all the friction.
  • fluxion, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1i think the "honeymoons" are actually the main draw here.
  • Louis11, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1They could get pointers from NASA. It's my understanding that they are rather knowledgeable in this area.
  • FlyingPhotog, on 10/03/2008, -0/+1If they're not experts, they'll have to experiment at some point to prove the viability of sustaining life in space. People have to be able to procreate.
  • TBombadil, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1hopefully
  • vptel, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1space adverture president? now that sounds like a cool job
  • ExRe, on 10/02/2008, -0/+1Ya, well, we got married in space!

    What? You say I am trying to compensate for something?
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