Sunday, 19 November 2006

Silly stunts

The Dumb Golf Stunt is set to happen during the spacewalk on 22/23 November, performed by Mikhail Tyurin. I really hate this aspect of the Russian space program; I am sure none of the cosmonauts joined their profession in order to be glorified salespeople. It’s undignified and the Russian government should increase their funding so that the space agency gets enough money and doesn’t have to resort to such tacky commercialism. The government space programs should be about exploring and colonizing space, not this nonsense.

Expedition 14 Mission Status Briefing Materials, NASA ISS site.