Linky: Where can I go to REALLY get away from it all? - The Straight Dope
Is Russia still offering to send a sufficiently rich/suicidal person on a circumlunar flight, or was the program dropped after there were no takers? I haven’t been able to find a cite. A solo flight to the far side of the moon, now THAT’S getting away from it all!
Are you possibly thinking of this article, Private space companies start competing for cheaper tickets to the Moon, from Pravda?
Pravda is now the Weekly World News of Russia. Its articles are made up. (Yeah, Pravda means “truth.” Historic irony.)
There never was any such program in Russia or the U.S. Probably never will be one in my lifetime.
I dare say it was an allusion to today’s featured S.D. Classic, Where can I go to REALLY get away from it all?
Well, duh, since that’s the first line in the OP.
But the word moon isn’t mentioned anywhere in the column no matter many times it gets linked to. My reference was to the OP, not to the irrelevant column.
Isn’t that in the middle of the South Pacific Gyre? I know there’s not as much garbage there as in the North Pacific Gyre, but I would think there’d be quite a bit of it.
Maybe back in 1977, it was a place where you could get away from it all, but I doubt it is any more.
Yes there was: Encyclopedia Astronautica Index: 1
My question was whether the program was now defunct. And while the original article by Cecil says nothing about flying to the moon, I took the question to be equivalent to “how far could I get from any other human being?”
I did more checking. The program is not defunct so much as a publicity stunt that was not serious for a single second in the first place. There was not then nor is there now a lunar program in Russia.
Unless it’s changed since I was there – and it could have; even Laos has a Starbucks now, I hear – there are no chain fast-food places of any type in Nepal, a great place to hang out.
list of places without mcdonalds at bottom:
Ooh, they even have a website: Space Adventures.
Ah, so there is one there now. Pity.
I am reminded of Pizza Hot in Cambodia. No, that’s not a typo. Pizza Hot, not Pizza Hut, and they blatantly ripped off the Pizza Hut logo and everything. 
I understand that this location is also pretty far away from anything, and has some interesting fauna. Latitude 47° 9’ S, Longitude 126° 43’ W. Some travelogues going back to the early Thirties describe it as ‘off the beaten track.’
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And Izvestia means “news,” which leads to the Russian saying: There’s no news in “Truth” and no truth in “News.”