CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The international space station's new skipper says forget 'NSYNC singer Lance Bass as the orbiting outpost's next tourist. Send up Cindy Crawford!
"We would be very happy to see one of the supermodels," Russian Valery Korzun said Saturday in response to a reporter's question as he settled in for a long and cloistered stay.
He quickly added: "But this is a joke and we will be very happy to receive any space tourist. They're very welcome here."
Korzun and his crew, American Peggy Whitson and Russian Sergei Treschev, moved into the international space station on Friday evening after their arrival aboard space shuttle Endeavour.
On Saturday, the astronauts hoisted a crammed cargo-carrier from the shuttle, attached it to the station for unloading and prepared for Sunday's spacewalk, the first of three planned during Endeavour's visit.