Space Tourism – the Soyuz Space Launch
It’s got to be the ultimate tourist trip, blasting off on a Russian Soyuz up to the International Space Station for a couple of weeks of circling the earth every 93 minutes. Want to go? Well call Space Adventures for your booking, a ticket is US$30 million plus and you have to spend six months in training although that does include the time you spend learning Russian.
No, I didn’t go up but I was there for the 12 October 2008 launch…
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