As close to a space adventure as I'll ever get: RUSSIA! checks out the mighty fine Vincent Fournier photography exhibition "Space Project," at Clic Gallery through November 1st.

It’s a dark day for the world’s budding space playboys: Roskosmos has announced it will discontinue its space tourism program after 2009. You can still blow $20 million dollars, you just can’t do it at Star City. In theory, it’s about the math: the space agency discovered that by eliminating one eccentric rich person from each Soyuz mission (much the way American Airlines once did with olives in salads), they can fit more cosmonauts on the international space station and thus get more work done. That’s the official story. But we know what this is really about: foreigners.