If you have $2.3 million lying around and are dying to have an out-of-this world wedding, you may be in luck.
A Japanese company is teaming up with an American firm to offer space wedding trips for you, your soon-to-be spouse and three guests (presumably a minister or justice of the peace and two witnesses). It sounds like kind-of a rip off to us, considering you spend five days training only to spend an hour getting married while orbiting the earth. If we were going to spend $2 million on a space wedding, we damn well better have our first dance on the moon.
Additionally, neither company's site says anything about gay marriage. Our assumption is that while outer space has no same-sex marriage laws, one would have to be married according to his or her state's law, or at least under the jurisdiction of the officiant. Any legally-minded folk want to help us figure this one out?
Anyway, all this space wedding talk got some people thinking... astronauts have got to being doing it up there, right?
Right. We mean, there's no way people can spend three years locked up in a space station and not do it. Right? Right?
We can only hope — for the sake of the astronauts — as NASA officials won't talk about it:
"We
don't study sexuality in space, and we don't have any studies ongoing
with
that," said NASA spokesman Bill Jeffs of the Johnson Space Center in
Houston. "If that's your specific topic, there's nothing to discuss,"
he
added, referring to "sex in space."
Somebody get to work on studying sex in space, and by the time we get married we'll give you $3 million for the ability to wed and bed in outerspace. Or we'll save our millions for barbeque and a live band, which really sounds like a lot more fun to us.
[Live Science: Japanese, U.S. Firms Offer Space Weddings, For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable]
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