Weddings Migrate to Outer Space

In terms of potential disaster a wedding makes a fleet of Hindenbergs trying to lift the Titanic over a kitten orphanage look like a trip to the corner shop. Rocketplane Kistler Japan have achieved the impossible, and found a way to add even more extreme catastrophe potential to the event - no matter how hard to handle your imminent in-laws may be, "explosive decompression" has never been a risk. Until now.

The space flight company are offering a two million dollar Space Wedding to anyone who wants it. I have to say that again: Space Wedding. It's some seriously awesome stuff, though I'm afraid that a green skinned Orion bride is not included. They only deal with escaping the Earth's gravitational pull and orbital mechanics - the truly difficult work of finding someone to say an ionospheric "I do" is up to you.

Why would somebody want to get married in space? You don't get high enough for weightlessness, so there's no chance of the ring floating off, but if you don't feel the need to escape the planet then you've never INSERT GENERIC MOTHER-IN-LAW JOKE HERE.

It might seem like a literally exorbitant extravagance, but a service like this is extremely good news for fans of space travel. The movement of orbital engineering into the commercial sector will drive affordable space development and innovation. More importantly, the whole basis of this idea is luxury - finally, after forty years of "So what?" after the moon landing, people are beginning to see space as more than a place where the TV satellites live.

It's a place we should go, because it's awesome.

Posted by Luke McKinney.

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