Isn’t this an incredible waste of fossil fuels?? Imagine the carbon footprint of a pointless product like this! If the company is looking to the future, I think it is missing something…

I think for a company that touts “SpaceAge” they should be ashamed at how badly planned a product they put out. Packaging is bad and not to mention there seems to be a growing issue in cities about banning water bottles.
I am from Austin, Texas and the tap water here is just about as good as any bottled water i’ve drank especially when chilled. It’s appalling to know that people will pay up to a dollar or more for a bottle of plastic with water that has an unverifiable source. I mean how do we know that this water came from the mountains of France or Space for that matter?
can they prove it?
I forsee the bottle water craze coming to an end, unless of course you are visiting Mexico or other countries where the local tap water is dangerous to our Americanized digestive systems.
Take care Josh!

I think this is the worse, most poorly executed gimmick I have ever seen. I would really like to see how they propose that they acheive this-they would have to own their own spaceship and for some reason I just don’t think Space20 has the budget of say the US government, Russia or Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Are you guys stupid or just blindly stuck in the past. I live in Austin and I think this is a great idea. I know several of the people in this company, by the way, their packaging won first place in marketing design for both the space2o and antimatter. What these guys are trying to do is get the government out of the space business and put it in private hands so development can occur – that may be what scares you the most – tell the truth.

They also are flying university and k-12 student experiments for free every time they fly. Beats the heck out of NASA which just announced they aren’t in the education business.

And you complain about a gimmick??? What about Red Bull gives you wings or Party like a Rock Star. Those are made up gimmicks, at least these guys give you a gimmick that’s real. The ingredients have been to space and back. By the way, people pay a lot of money to hang something on the wall that has been to space – this company gives you that for the same price you pay for energy drinks and water now.

You guys should get a life and quit sitting back and bitching about everything. What have you contributed to the future lately? Other than your pseudo intellectual bombast!

Michelle Katrina

I’m from Portland and I agree with Michelle.

Everything we buy has a gimmick. At least these guys are doing something that’s real not just an ad campaign.

Hey M, look at the website before you start writing. They’ve already had two flights to space and you can see them on the web site.

You guys should do your homework before you start pontificating on stuff you don’t understand. I just ordered two cases of each – hey Javier, I’ll save the bottles for you.

Sarah

Count me in with Michelle and Sarah. What the hell is the matter with you guys. I don’t see you bitching about Red Bull gives you wings or party like a Rock Star like Michelle mentioned. You just sort of single out these guys cause they’re doing something a little out of the box.

Josh, you are being mean and it’s uncalled for. I checked, these guys did when first place for their package designs – so what up with you?

I think the fact that they are using this money to give universities and k-12 kids an opportunity to actually fly stuff to space is great – more people should be doing stuff like that. And all you have to offer is complaints!!!!

By the way M, I did check out their web site and the video from their rocket launches are shown. Including one that crashed. You guys need to ease up and give this company some credit for doing something different.

Roger

Turns out the company is not launching water into space, only the mineral electrolytes that are added to any commercial water – just like Dasani.

Microgravity apparently alters the behavior of minerals and metals, according to Science Daily – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070628071643.htm.

Feel free to Google more articles on the subject.

-Lisa

“Commercialize space and make it a part of everyday life”

Thats a great goal right there. And since you all can’t hear the tone of my voice, let me assure you, that was some heavy duty sarcasm. I’m not the loudest speaker for the environment, heck if they make a list I won’t be on it, but how exactly can you even think for one second, that if we all need to either stop driving or drive smartcars, if we’re taught since primary/kindergarten to make sure we turn off lights, don’t let the tap drip etc, that making space travel an every day occurrence is a good idea? Now maybe, MAYBE when we get better technology, when it doesn’t cost so much and make such a negative impact, but until then..

Space flights everyday so you can have water thats not REALLY going to be different from your tap water in anyway you can see. Yeah. That responsible all right. Ooo, but we let Red Bull get away with saying they give you wings (even though they have a disclaimer every time saying they don’t.) That sure is the exact same. Yep.

And tell me, these lovely gents who are so concerned with making money, are they being careful not to add more space junk to the already massive and dangerous amounts up there from other space flights? I don’t see anything about that on their site. But everyone should be able to pop into space whenever they want right? And we should buy from them so they can keep doing it.

If you’re that self destructive.. Well, I won’t finish that, I’m sure some people will be angry enough at what I’ve already said. And by the way, it’s all true, look it up.