Screw the Russians. Do it with a Virgin.

Russia charged us tens of millions to send a Malaysian to space as a piece of furniture. And at the end of the day, nobody except UMNO acknowledges him as anything more than a space tourist.

I reckon when it comes to sending our Astrocannot No.2 to space, we should tell the Russkis to go jump into a vat of vodka and screw themselves. We can go to space on Virgin Galactic's Space Ship Two, and it'll only cost the Malaysian taxpayer $200,000.

Here's BBC on the virgin.

The rocket spaceliner will carry two pilot astronauts and six ticketed passengers. They will fly initially from a new facility called Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert.

Seats cost $200,000. Virgin Galactic says more than 200 individuals have booked, and another 85,000 have registered an interest to fly.

And here's what the space flight participants will do.

The journeys will last about two-and-a-half hours from beginning to end. Passengers on SS2 will climb to an altitude of 110km, from where they will get to experience weightlessness for a few minutes, and see the curvature of the Earth and the black of space.

Hey, just wait a frickin' cotton pickin' minute... "experience weightlessness for a few minutes, and see the curvature of the Earth and the black of space"... isn't that exactly what our angkasawan did on his multi-million dollar space holiday? In fact, isn't that the only thing he did?