2005: A pretend space odyssey

Having exhausted every possible indoor and outdoor method of making people as uncomfortable as possible while the world watches, reality-TV producers are heading to space. Well, sort of. Producers of a new British reality show are fooling nine civilians into thinking they’ve been launched into space. The producers of the show are in the process of selecting the (un)lucky nine, who will train with the Space Tourism Agency of Russia before heading to the great beyond—or actually, unbeknownst to them, into a model space shuttle from the Clint Eastwood movie Space Cowboys, parked at an unused airbase.