The Space Review asks if space tourism can survive the failing economy.  You probably heard about the first layperson in space but apparently this is now a trend among the rich and famous.  If this isn’t the antithesis of socially conscious tourism, we don’t know what is.

The demise of this type of “tourism” or as we like to call it, “ridiculously overt way of overcompensating for your own small package by traveling 3x the speed of sound in an extremely large phallic vehicle,” would be welcome.

(Check out the comments section on the Space Review article – talk about wackos.)

Tags: space review, space tourism

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