vnunet.com's Iain Thomson wrote:
A Japanese firm is offering couples the chance to get hitched in space.
The firm will provide the happy couple with a rocket capable of taking them, a priest and two witnesses 100km up to get married in freefall.
Most of the service will be conducted on the ground and then the vows exchanged while the couple enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness. The capsule then returns to earth and they can get on with the honeymoon.
The wedding package costs $2.4 million and the Japanese firm First Advantage says it expects the package to be popular with wealthy couples from Asia and the Middle East.
The package is being organised with US space tourism company Rocket Plane, based in Oklahoma.
The offering is part of a boom in space tourism, which many firms believe is now viable. Richard Branson’]regulations for space tourists[/B].
I couldn't help but notice this bit from the piece on the USFAA's recommended regulations for space tourists:
Space tourists should be given pre-flight training to handle emergencies such as a fire or loss of cabin pressure, and how to use the emergency exits.
I doubt that opening an emergency exit in space will improve your situation much.
