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Date: Aug 12, 2005
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This article talks about sending tourists to the moon by 2009.  Only problem is, it's gonna cost 55 million quid.


What was of mild interest though was their rich list of British people who could afford to go:





Who could afford a £55m trip?

Only a small group of well-known figures in Britain could follow the US entrepreneur Dennis Tito into space. They include

Richard Branson (worth £2.6bn) His space company, Virgin Galactic, will take him to the edge of space, but there are no plans yet to go to the moon. Could Space Adventures' ideas tempt him?

Stelios Haji-Ioannou (£300m) Perhaps he could get tips for a low-cost version of space travel? EasyMoon?

Eddie Irvine (£153m) Space travel is probably the only possible adrenaline fix left for the ex-formula one driver

James Dyson (£800m) Inventor extraordinaire, he would be handy if things went wrong. And he could probably spruce up the Soyuz capsule as well

JK Rowling (£435m) Harry Potter's only got one book left in him. Maybe space travel would provide the inspiration Rowling needs for her next epic

The Queen (£250m) Her Majesty has more than enough to charter several missions and take the whole family into space

David Beckham (£65m) Famously, Beckham has long wanted to go into space. And he can just about afford it too - but the leftover cash might not be enough to keep Victoria in designer shoes for very much longer

Ranulph Fiennes (unknown) If he got lots of sponsors perhaps he could make it. But who knows if his Soyuz mission would make it all the way to the moon?



Rowling is richer than the queen.  Cool!



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BrianS


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Yeah not sure with the conversion rates but Fortune Magazine listed her at $1 Billion in the this year's Billionares issue. They also ranked world leaders. The queen was at $650 Million. Bush was around 15 Million. Not suprising all the Saudis were waaaaaaaaay up there. Sultan of Brunei was another one worth a ton. They also ranked Castro in the hundreds of millions. This is due to the fact that he is a dictator so they included all state-owned assets as his. He got pissed and demanded Forturn remove him from the list because the state belongs to the people and other commie crap.

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