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ISS opened its "hatches" to the third private visit

Moscow, Russia - The latest space tourist arrived just today aboard the orbital station by a Soyuz spaceship together with two astronauts

After US citizen Dennis Tito and South African Mark Shuttleworth, Greg Olsen (another American) is the third private to be hosted on the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz TMA-7 spaceship left two years ago from Baikonur Base (Kazakhstan) hooked just today to the orbital station with its three crew members: Olsen and two astronauts (one American and one Russian). The space tourist...

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