I don't begrudge what's-his-name from 'N Sync for wanting to shell out the $20 million to go into space, and I'm not going to make fun of him for it or claim he's being excessive. (I can't keep track of all the members of all the boy bands, sorry. I think it's Lance that's going.) Ask any six-year-old boy if he wants to be an astronaut and I guarantee you that at least 90% of your sample population will say yes. The desire never really goes away, it's just tempered over time with maturity, the crushing drudgery of everyday life and the lack of $20 million needed to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz capsule.

But if you offered the chance to any adult male, there's a decent chance he'd say yes. Adult female too, most likely. So given that he's got the cash to do it, I think there's nothing wrong with him fulfilling a dream like that. I applaud him and I'll probably end up following his trip with a decent amount of envy.

Some of you may say that he's wasting $20 million that could've easily gone towards charity to help a whole lot of people. To that, I say these two things:
1. That $20 million will be fed directly into the Russian infrastructure, which is teetering on the edge of collapse because of lack of money. They need it. It's a decent cause. I'd rather they get the $20 million from an American boy band member in order to rocket him into space than from some radical group who's buying excess nuclear warheads off the Russians.
2. Where do you think he got that $20 million from in the first place? You don't honestly think it rained from the sky like Skittles, do you? So if you're so indignant that he's blowing this cash, you shouldn't have given him the money in the first place by buying his group's CDs and other merchandise and buying tickets to his group's concerts.