Comments on: HerOrbit.com founders going to space? Maybe. http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/04/02/herorbitcom-founders-going-to-space-maybe/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Afshin http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/04/02/herorbitcom-founders-going-to-space-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-206436 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:11:29 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/04/02/herorbitcom-founders-going-to-space-maybe/#comment-206436 Is this for real? We were approached by HerOrbit.com to advertise with our company, http://applesofgold.com/ with them. They don’t seem like a huge enough website to be getting $40 million in free space flight.

I’m just trying to figure out if my $90 they are asking me for is worth the time!! Is this serious?

]]> By: Personal Spaceflight » HerOrbit.com followup http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/04/02/herorbitcom-founders-going-to-space-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-127880 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:45:24 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/04/02/herorbitcom-founders-going-to-space-maybe/#comment-127880 […] To follow up on yesterday’s report where the cofounders of a social networking startup announced they were going to travel to the ISS, I received a response to some questions I posed the company from one of the cofounders/would-be space tourists, Cherry Mendoza. According to her, while they would start training in preparation for the flights this fall, formal training (presumably meaning actually starting training in Russia) would not begin until next spring. The two (Mendoza and Jennifer Bellofatto) would not fly together on the same flight since “such arrangements more than triple the cost of flight,” according to Mendoza. (Which makes sense given that typically only one seat is open per taxi flight.) One of them would fly in fall 2008 and the other in 2009, she said. […]

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