From Neatorama.com:

Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte is paying $35 million to catch a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft later this month. Laliberte calls himself “the first clown in space.”

full story here

My question is, why can’t they just send them all and be done with it?

In space, no one hear’s you squeak your nose.

I haven’t posted in such a long time. I’ve been too busy as usual for much fun these days.

For those of you that read CoinOpSpace.com you may have already seen this:

I picked this up on eBay. I’ve been hunting for Mappy stuff on eBay for a few years now and its the first one I’ve seen turn up. I had a friend in Japan help do some translation for this. The front reads Mappy Character Manual. It appears to be an artwork guide, showing exactly how the Mappy logo and characters are supposed to be drawn, and in what colors. Very very cool. Here are the rest of the pages. If you click on them, you can see them on Flickr.com, in original size. You can also mouse over the Japanese text to see what most of it says.