Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to outer space so badly that he's willing to put up $35 million to do so. According to Space Adventures, the space tourism company, Brin has already put down a $5 million deposit.

At a news conference in New York, Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson announced the creation of an Orbital Mission Explorers Circle of members who will each contribute $5 million to help finance the company's first private mission to the space station.

Space Adventures has bought seats on Russian space agency missions to the orbiting ISS. The company could be headed to space on their own by 2011.

No word on yet when Brin will be sent into orbit or who all plans to go with him. Before Paris Hilton lost her inheritance, she was talking about going.