posted 12-20-2005 10:06 AM               

Moby is set to become the first pop star to visit outer space.

The star looks set to make history after booking a seat on via Richard Branson's 'Virgin Galactic' space flight.

After paying out $207,000 for the privilege, Moby has set the date of his outer space flight for sometime in 2010.

Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro has also booked on for a later flight, while Robbie Williams has also expressed an interest, reports Undercover.

posted 12-20-2005 10:49 AM               

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Among those who told Branson that they wished to be among the first to fly on the spacecraft are Star Trek star William Shatner, Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro, Alien star Sigourney Weaver, an unnamed Hollywood director, and socialite Paris Hilton. Richard Branson himself, as well as a select few of his close family members will blast off on the first flight of the VSS Enterprise in 2008. In March 2005, Doug Ramsberg, a native of Northglenn, Colorado, won a free trip to suborbital space aboard Virgin Galactic, from a Volvo sweepstake sponsored by Virgin.

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I say leave Paris up there.

posted 12-20-2005 11:52 AM               

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Originally posted by collshubby:
I say leave Paris up there.

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Yeah, of all the diminished expectations of the space age, that's gotta be the top of the list -- who would have though, watching "2001," that four years after the movie was set, this is what people would mean when they talked about a Hilton in space.