Russia’s parliament voted Wednesday against a motion to send the celebrated US singer, actress and children’s book author Madonna to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008. Alexei Mitrofanov, a member of the Duma (the lower house of parliament) for the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, had said the trip would be “a great event to organise in the same year as elections in the United States and Russia.”
He said the star, who gave a concert in Moscow on Tuesday, had “expressed a desire to go into space and board the ISS.”
Mitrofanov put the idea before a plenary session of parliament, asking it to vote on whether Russia’s space agency should look into the feasibility of a Madonna space flight.
Forty two legislators backed the idea but 252 voted against, so the motion was not passed.
Obviously, Russia’s dipshit politicians can figure out how to waste time as well as our own dipshit politicians.
Can we vote to send her somewhere else?
Were they intending to bring her back as well?
Damn, you beat me to it Peter…
Peter, James:
Wouldn’t that be ‘voting her off the planet’?
J/P=?
Was she looking for a freebie, or was she willing to put up the cash?
Just Curious… could the Americans in the shuttle come along too? Maybe we could “loose” Madonna like a slippery little bolt….
The Russian Space Agency has no objections to Madonna’s plans for a space flight, but the American pop diva could make a space trip no earlier than 2009, the agency’s spokesperson said Wednesday.
Alexei Mitrofanov, a flamboyant lawmaker from the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, earlier proposed that Madonna’s desire to make the trip, which she expressed during her two-day visit to Russia, be fulfilled – a proposal that met with rejection by Russian lawmakers.
“We are aware of today’s debates in the State Duma [the lower house of the Russian parliament] as to the proposed flight by Madonna to the International Space Station,” Igor Panin said.
“Although a precise schedule for the flights of the so-called ‘space tourists’ has been approved until the end of 2008, Madonna’s request will not meet any objections, and her representatives can approach us even now,” he said, adding that the pop star’s physical fitness and finances guarantee that her space dreams might come true as early as 2009.
#3, is that so wrong?
Madonna going to space for the first time, like a virgin?
It would have been a good thing for send her to space since it would be the first time no one will hear her preaching the Kabalah.
Madonna will become a shooting star…
With a small course correction, we could send Madonna into the center of the Sun, which has always been my dream.
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