Someone of whom I've never heard named Lance Bass from some band named Nsync (boy, am I totally unhip or what? And proud of it, too...) is negotiating for a trip to space.

This is great news. It will start to make space tourism something that more and more people in the entertainment world start to think about seriously. And they have money. We want to make this the next Hollywood fad.

Also, as a result we're starting to approach the tipping point at which demand for seats will exceed Russian supply. This will help provide needed funding for companies like Mircorp, and get investors to start taking this market seriously.

As more investment is made in the system by entities with a true interest in reducing costs, launch costs will finally start coming down from their current stratospheric levels. That will also enable the development of dedicated orbital hotels, so no one will have to any longer kowtow to NASA in order to take a space vacation.

This is a tough one. I really would like to see space tourism take off, but the thought of losing Lance in space is quite appealing as well.

Rand, I kinda liked the slashdot headline
when this fell through:

"Lance Bass to continue to plague Earth's surface."

BTW, interesting web site, I just noticed,
does everyone else on the planet have one
already? Eek.