No More Space Tourists After 2009, Russia Says

mknewman writes with disappointing news for anyone with the money that it would have cost to fly as a space tourist, excerpting a story that says "Russia's space chief says there won't be any more tourists headed to the international space station after this year. Anatoly Perminov told the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that there will be no room for paying tourists because the space station's crew is expanding from three members to six."

Damn!

[A. B3ttik]

So much for my dream of posting from space.

Oh, Really?

[bradgoodman]

They can say whatever they want - in reality, there's always gonna be enough room for Benjamin Franklin...(or enough of them!)

Re:Damn!

[CannonballHead]

"first post from space"

Re:And....

[oldspewey]

In Soviet Russia, jokes queue you.

Re:Damn!

[CannonballHead]

Well, if subscribers can apparently see articles in the future, maybe people in *cough* web space *cough* can see even further!

And then there's always the google "search tomorrow" function. [google.com.au]

Everybody hates a tourist.

[Cathoderoytube]

Honestly you can't blame them. They had a slew of obnoxious tourists who got really drunk and trashed the aft section of the station. It was so bad they had to detach the entire section and crash it into the pacific ocean.

Re:Oldest sales trick in the book

[Lachlan Hunt]

I've been saving my pocket money for this, and I was so close to having enough! I only need another $19,996,142 to reach my $20 million dollar goal, but unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll reach that amount before the end of the year.

Re:This story could easily have been about Taco...

[EthanV2]

But the ratings system only goes up to 5.

It's all good

[Anonymous Coward]

Vladimir Putin will use his huge swinging Russian dick to catapault stupid Yankee paying tourists into orbit.

Re:Oldest sales trick in the book

[Em Ellel]

Good call... no, great call

Plus, Russia still needs money, I'm sure they'd take some kind of offer. This is more like saying: "this price has gone up... way up"

Yeah, because they could not have just set the price to whatever they wanted...I mean they'd have to be the only ones offering space tourism, like some sort of a monopoly, to do that... Oh wait, they are....

-Em