I’ve been trying to save up money for a trip into outer space and now they’ve gone and raised the price.
The first space tourists to visit the International Space Station by jumping a ride aboard a Russian rocket paid a scant $20 million for the adventure. Recent passengers have paid $25 million.
The word on the street, however, is that the price for the rest of 2008 and 2009 is expected to increase to nearly $40 million–mostly due to the falling dollar.
Dammit! That means another 200 years of saving my money before I can scrape up that fee.