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Astronaut Cernan was on Lou Dobbs last night. During the interview cernan mentioned that since a 77 year old colleague had returned to space he is working on a plan for a 17 year old to fly in space. this is very interesting since I happened to send an e-mail to Boy Scout Headquarters yesterday and suggested that the million strong Boy Socut organization could hold a fund raiser where each scout would try to sell, (cookies candy whatever) to net $20 per scout. The $20 Million raised would used to buy a Soyuz seat and allow one scout to camp out at the ISS for a coupla days!

I e-mailed Lou Dobbs and am trying to network to Cernan as well. I've communicated with NSS headqtrs in DC as well. John Travolta was the keynote speaker at the kick off of the Centennial of Flight ceremonies held by the Smithsonian. He is a noted flying afficiando and I tried to e-mail to him through one of his fan sites but...

If anyone can ehlp in this matter we can get the kids off the ground. My Space University proposal is at www.nssnt.org. Any help networking would be appreicated.

That sounds like a great idea, maybe some corporate sponsors would be interested. Probably in about 2-3 years it will be possible to buy a quick sub-orbital trip to the edge of space and back for around $90,000. Not as cool as staying on the ISS, but far more affordable and could be funded by bake sales, etc. Definitely affordable to corporate sponsors.