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Two Tourists To Visit ISS In 2006-2007
Moscow (UPI) Apr 8, 2005 Two tourists will visit the International Space Station in 2006 and 2007, local media reported last Friday. Anatoly Perminov, head of Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, told the ITAR-TASS news agency Roskosmos is developing projects to send two tourists - one from Japan and the other from a second country - into orbit separately next year and the year after. He said the countries partnering in the ISS - Brazil, Canada, Japan, Russia, the United States and 11 countries of the European Union - must consent to the visits, however. Nevertheless, Roskosmos "fully supports space tourism," Perminov stressed. Perminov said within a few years, there could be many private spacecraft carrying tourists to orbit around Earth, but those spacecraft would be less reliable than the Russian Soyuz, which currently is used to ferry crew and cargo to the space station. South Korea plans to pick two potential space tourists by next month, with the intention of putting the first Korean into space two years later, according to the South Korean Yonhap news agency. In October 2007, one of the two candidates will travel to the ISS aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, the agency reported earlier this year. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News
ZeroG Aerospace Launches Affordable Space Tourism for the Masses
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 23, 2005ZeroG Aerospace today announced the first-ever chance for consumers to participate in space exploration through the company's new website at www.zerog-space.com. With the inaugural launch set for March 27, 2006 in the new Southwest Regional Spaceport near White Sands, New Mexico, the countdown has begun to fill this unprecedented payload, called ZGS-1. |
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