In message <joe-DF5CF9.10253027072005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Joe Strout <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Russia is working out a plan to send a tourist around the Moon and back
> for $100M. <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8700874/>
>
> If true, this is amazingly cool. By my count, only 27 people have ever
> made the trip around the Moon in all of human history
Don't exagerate, it's only 24! :-)
Jim Lovell, John Young and Gene Cernan all got to go twice.
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