playing golf on the moon (with David Bowie)

Bowie is 60

Happy Birthday David. The average lifespan for a British male now stands at 75. This could mean that we only have 15 years left to get to the moon for that game of golf. On the other hand, medical technology plus DB's relative wealth and health makes me confident that we can stretch that to 25 or even 30 years. Plenty of time.

Good to read that David is having a quiet day to day (if a little unexciting for a budding spaceman):

"Iman, his Somali model wife of almost 15 years, plans to cook him his favourite dish, shepherd's pie, before he curls up on the sofa with six-year-old daughter Lexi to watch cartoons. "David is going to be 60 but he's not freaking out about it," said Iman, 51. "I guess that's because he's happy. We just lead a very simple family life."

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=166757&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=29295

I'm assuming the shepherd's pie is named after Alan, the first of the moongolfers.

Another dotcom millionaire heads into space

The billionaire founder of Amazon.com has released the first images of the launch of a private spacecraft that could bring space travel to the masses.A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle shows it climbing to about 85m (285ft) before returning back to Earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6230245.stm