Space Tourist Flight: 2009
Russia Prepares for 2009 Space Tourist Flight, Future Spacecraft
MOSCOW — Russia’s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country’s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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Prices for the orbital trips increased from $20 million-to-$25 million to no less than $30 million earlier this year.
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