Spaced out

When millionaire Dennis Tito paid $20 mn to vacation in the vacuum of space, it put tourism in focus for me. It seems the Russians had forgotten to pack space sickness bags in the Soyuz craft, and Tito needed them - badly. They proffered 'hygienic tissues' instead. I only hope they had a business class lounge for him at the Baikonur space station.Of course Tito follows in a long tradition of tourism as the monetization of masochism. People pay lots of money to be burnt in the sun, frozen,