Space Adventures declined to comment for this story. McPike’s lawyers countered in their filings that Space Adventures spent an “embarrassing amount of time” focusing on his “irrelevant interactions with fashion models.”McPike himself thinks Space Adventures should be cringing. “There’s not many places where no one has been before.”McPike met with representatives of the Russian space agency in southern Kazakhstan, where the rocket would launch. “This was an incredibly tumultuous time within the Russian space industry,” Anderson said in a deposition. Space Adventures is still pursuing its planned moon trip.

Source: National Post May 27, 2019 15:19 UTC