This is when I wish I was very very rich ...

Money has never been a big deal to me as long as I have enough to pay my mortgage and buy food and gas. Now, comes an opportunity for those with lots of money. I want to do this sooooooooooo much ... anyone out there willing to donate the $15 million or so it would take to send Sara to space?

Space tourists offered walkabout

By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Space walkers will spend 1.5 hours circling the Earth

A company that blasted the first space tourists into orbit is offering future clients the chance to do a space walk.

Space Adventures say the optional excursion will cost $15m (£8m) on top of the $20m cost for the flight.

For that, private space explorers will get a 1.5 hour accompanied extra-vehicular-activity (EVA) outside the International Space Station (ISS).

The EVA would lengthen a stay on the ISS from 10 days to between 16 and 18 and would require additional training.

Eric Anderson, president of and CEO of Space Adventures said they already had "potential clients" for the spacewalks.

Those with enough money would get to "hang out" outside the space station with a trained cosmonaut as a guide, he said.

"One and a half hours in about one orbit of the earth so they'd see the entire planet," said Mr Anderson. "They'd experience complete day-time and night-time and watch the planet in its beauty and splendour." ... Continued