Outer-space tourism continues to develop
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Date: January 18, 2011
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Kerry Widdup
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Virginia-based company Space Adventures has announced that their orbital space flights to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz spaceships will resume in 2013 since being halted in 2009. Three space tourists a year will have the opportunity to visit outer space at the hefty price tag of US$35 million each. Meanwhile, billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is working to satisfy its own customers with the development of the first purely commercial suborbital spaceliner Virgin SpaceShip (VSS). The craft is designed to carry six passengers at the much lower price tag of US$200,000 a seat. There are 340 passengers waitlisted for Virgin’s journey to the edge of space and Virgin have not yet released a date as to when these trips will commence.
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