Russia to offer US$100m trip to the moon (Reuters) Updated: 2005-07-28 06:00
Russian space officials want to offer tourists a trip around the moon for
$100 million, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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file photo of Russia's Soyuz-TMA
capsule. | Energiya, the Russian company that
helps build and fly Moscow's spaceships, presented the plans to the Federal
Space Agency on Monday, the daily Izvestia said.
A space tourist would blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz
rocket, spend a week on the International Space Station (ISS) and then leave the
ISS to travel around the moon before returning to earth, the paper said.
Russia's Space Agency, which is eager to attract extra funds, has sent two
tourists into space -- U.S. businessman Dennis Tito and South African Mark
Shuttleworth -- on week-long trips. Tickets for those trips cost a reported $20
million.
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