They will be celebrating in Chile on Tuesday night if a planned evacuation mission is successful, bringing 33 trapped miners safety after living underground in a section of collapsed mine the size of a studio apartment.

After 68 days living in filth, kept alive with hydrating gels and limited food and water, the men will begin a much longer ordeal: fame.

The AP reports: "They have been invited to visit presidential palaces, take all-expenses-paid vacations and appear on countless TV shows.  Contracts for book and movie deals are pending, along with job offers. More money than they could dream of is already awaiting their signature."

Already, family members waiting on the surface above the small gold and copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert have engaged in bitter arguments about which families have prospered most from their newfound celebrity.

Chile, still recovering from a February earthquake that killed as many as 1000 people, displaced 1.5 million and caused up to $30 billion in damage, has adopted the miners as a national cause.

Each man will be lifted 2000 feet through a narrow shaft in a small capsule, then taken directly to the hospital.  Within 48 hours of the start of the mission, rescuers say, all 33 will be safely above ground.

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