Dennis Tito, a California businessman, bought a ticket on a Russian rocket for a trip to the international space station. NASA is not exactly pleased about this, because, oh I don't know, having a civillian who doesn't know anything about running an international space station on your mission may screw things up? Let's not take any lessons from that recent submarine accident now shall we?

I can't wait for tourist-class space travel, believe me, and I'll be shortly in line after my friend Andy. But let's wait until they kinda get things ironed out up there, eh? (link from Robot Wisdom)