'Avatar' director James Cameron rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon

bananas

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Mon Jun-06-11 11:37 AM
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'Avatar' director James Cameron rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110605-NEWS-110609885

'Avatar' director rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon
By NewsCore
June 05, 2011 7:24 AM

LONDON � The first of two $150 million tickets for a pioneering tourist mission to the moon was off the market Sunday, and its owner was rumored to be the world-famous "Avatar" director James Cameron.

Space Adventures, the American company offering the trip scheduled for 2015, said only that the buyer of the ticket was a "well-known" personality. The expedition will begin aboard a Soyuz spaceship launched from Kazakhstan.

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Tom Shelley, the British president of Space Adventures, would not even disclose whether the buyer of the seat was male or female, saying the name must remain "top secret."

He added, "Only 24 people have seen the dark side of the moon, and the sight of the Earth rising behind the moon must be one of the most amazing moments in anyone's life."

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Via http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/06/is-james-camero.html
and http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/?itemid=29985

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thelordofhell

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Mon Jun-06-11 12:21 PM
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1. Everybody knows that Ralph Kramden bought the 1st ticket

For his wife, Alice

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drokhole

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Mon Jun-06-11 12:45 PM
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3. A one-way ticket on the Uppercut Express, right?

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Phoonzang

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Mon Jun-06-11 12:40 PM
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2. Around the moon by 2015?

Edited on Mon Jun-06-11 12:41 PM by Phoonzang

Yeah...ok. It would be nice, but I have a hard time believing that they'll be able to leave orbit for the first time in 40 years that soon.

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bananas

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:22 AM
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4. Soyuz was designed to go to the moon. nt

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joshcryer

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Tue Jun-07-11 11:21 PM
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7. SpaceX can easily accomplish that with Falcon 9.

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AlecBGreen

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Tue Jun-07-11 06:51 AM
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5. I heard it was a chubby German kid who likes chocolate

Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 06:51 AM by AlecBGreen

Augustus something...

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DavidDvorkin

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Tue Jun-07-11 09:31 AM
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6. I hope it's safe, but on the bright side, if it's not

there won't be a sequel to Avatar.

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Lionel Mandrake

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Thu Jun-09-11 03:06 PM
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8. Why the moon? Why not Pandora?

And I have a few more questions for James Cameron:

What is the giant spotted planet in the Pandoran sky? Is Pandora just a moon?

What is the chemical symbol for unobtainium? Where is it in the periodic table?

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