There was a time not so long ago that the most expensive vacation one could possibly undertake was a $20 million trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.
Not to be outdone by such “thrifty” vacationers, Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian Governor of the Chukotka region who resides in London, is rumored to be brokering a $300 million deal for the Russian Federal Space Agency to fly him to the moon. It doesn’t appear that he will actually land on the surface, but if he does he would be the first Russian to do so.
The best thing, however, is that he can thumb his nose at the pauper tourists slumming it at the International Space Station as he roars past.