The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced plans to offer trips around the moon to space tourists.Passengers willing to pay the $150 million ticket price would launch into space aboard a three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Upon reaching space, the craft would rendezvous with a waiting, unmanned rocket thatwould take the spacecraft the rest of the way to the moon, where the moon would be circled at an altitude of 62 miles.Tags: News, World, space tourism, Moon, space, Sci-Tech, Russia, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
