India Today has some updates on Indian millionauts who expect to be soaring off into space soon:
Santhosh George Kulangara, 37, who heads Labour India group of publications and the Malayalam television programme Sancharam has finished training in zero- gravity and high g- force (gravitational force that pulls you down when you fly up).
“I have seen 70 countries and travelled in their bylanes, villages and deserts. The question is what next?†Santhosh said over the telephone from a television studio in Thiruvananthapuram.
An excellent question. Space is a definite possibility. Or prison. Federal tax authorities raided his offices last week looking for evidence of tax evasion.
Then there is diamond heir Jay Patel, who announced his plans to fly aboard PanAero’s suborbital ship with John Travolta and a Russian billionaire. It all sounds great, at least until you do a little bit of Googling:
- PanAero exists, and it does indeed pursue space tourism projects;
- There is scant evidence that any of the company’s plans ever got beyond the vaporware stage;
- PanAero’s founder and leading light, Len Cormier, passed away last June.
- No one has heard much from the company since that time.
It is possible that there are some top secret projects going on secretly that nobody has heard of. But, I doubt it is the case here. I don’t think there’s much to Patel story.
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