What will $25 million buy you these days. How about a good meal with a really… Really good view.

Martha Stewart is sending gracious living into orbit, picking a gourmet space meal of duck breast confit and semolina cake with dried apricots for her billionaire space tourist “best friend” and his comrades in the international space station.

Charles Simonyi, a software engineer and one of the 400 richest Americans according to Forbes Magazine, is set to lift off aboard a Soyuz space capsule with two Russian cosmonauts. He paid roughly $25 million for a 13-day trip to the space station.

You know, nothing says mid-life crisis like blowing the Gross National Product of a small Eastern European nation to have a zero gravity duck dinner. Atmosphere. That’s what diners are looking for these days. Heh. Atmosphere. Cause… they’re in space. Little gastronomical humor there.

No word yet on how the fabulous meal that Martha is laying out will taste after being crammed into a small toothpaste tube… cause I’m pretty sure that’s how they do things in space these days. Don’t want a stray apricot getting stuck in any Deploy Chute buttons or anything.


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