Rocket man

Note: this post best appreciated if read while listening to "Also Sprach Zarathustra."

Space Adventures Ltd., the Virginia-based firm that brokered the privately paid for space flights of Dennis Tito and two other multimillionaires, today announced that it's expanding its offerings. For $20 million, Space Adventures will get you a ride to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. For an extra $15 million, you can now go on a 90-minute spacewalk. Just imagine. You climb into a Russian-made Orlan spacesuit, slowly depressurize the airlock, open the hatch, and then you and a cosmonaut partner float out into the void. For 90 minutes (about $10 million an hour) there is nothing between you and infinity but the gold-tinted visor of your suit. Tethers are included so you don't float away.
Think it over. You don't have to answer right away.

The only downside to this is I've been basing my long term financial planning on the $200,000 or so needed for a suborbital flight... looks like I need to expand my investing by a factor of 150. Drat.