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Space trips: Soyuz is full until 2009

Moscow, Russia - The chief of Russian space agency thinks of future space trips lasting only few minutes for a lower price

Despite the high tickets' rate (USD 20m) space tourism is registering an ever bigger success. The chief of Russian space agency, Anatoli Perminov, has in fact announced the shuttle Soyuz is full until 2009. Perminov said moreover that, because of the high number of requests, in the future he is thinking to use "Suborbital shuttles" to make tourists travel for a few minutes for a lower price. As...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 69189
Rome, Italy, 11/14/2006 16:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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