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Advertisers have already put the idea into practice. This March, the retired space station Mir was set to crash into the Pacific Ocean near the Australian coast. Taco Bell floated a 100-square-meter target near the crash site, and guaranteed, if the station hit the target, a free taco for all 280 millions Americans...
Some observers suspect that the agency's formal objections were only part of the story. "The problem is ego over who controls the International Space Station," says Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, the commercial space-tourism agency that brokered Tito's flight. Some Russians agree. Said former cosmonaut Georgi Grechko in a TV interview before NASA yielded: "We have a new station, and the Americans are showing us who the boss...
...without a fight. It wasn't only principle at stake: Tito is reportedly funneling $20 million into that country's financially strapped space agency for the privilege of spending quality time in orbit. The original plan was to send him for a visit to Russia's aging Mir space station. But when Mir took a controlled dive into the Pacific Ocean earlier this spring, the Russians insisted that he be allowed aboard the ISS instead...
...NASA didn't like Tito the tourist, it will really hate what's coming next. The Russians have been talking with NBC about a Survivor-type show in which contestants compete for a ride on the space station, and have consulted the U.S. companies Boeing and Spacehab about a new module for the station that could be used for for-profit research--or even more tourism. The U.S. was always able to call the shots when it had sole control of its manned space program. Now that that control is being shared, visits by tycoons and TV personalities...
...first Amtrak train left New York's Penn station. And from that moment on, the company never stopped losing money, expanding its fleet to include 260 trains serving 512 stations scattered across all but five states. Granted, since its inception, Amtrak has raked in more than $24 billion in federal subsidies, which sounds like an awful lot of money but which is actually just enough to keep the company?s hopes alive without committing absolutely to its salvation. It's divided between trains making long journeys, such as our Florida jaunt, and those making relatively short hauls, such...