Author .::. Maxx

Those, who have already saved $200000 to try the suborbital flight around the Earth, can get even more. According to the words of the new President of S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Nikolaj Sevastianov there exist some intentions to suggest flying around the Moon to the space tourists. The ticket will cost one hundred million dollars.

The representative of RSC has announced that the trip will start from Baikonur spacedrome on the spacecraft "Soyuz-TMA" on the rocket carrier "Soyuz". The tourist will spend the first week on the ISS. Then, together with two professional spacemen the tourist will fly around the Moon at 100- 200 km from its surface. This flight will be realized with the help of the additional dispersal "DM" block, worked out and made by RSC Energia. This block may be delivered to the orbit by the heavy rocket "Proton" or the rocket "Zenit".

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