Russia will become the first country to open the space station for tourists, the site reported "Orbital Technologies. The construction and operation of the space station is assumed by rocket and space corporation Energia (PKK), a company Orbital Technologies provides project and seek customers. RCC will provide fields in the same orbit as the ISS.
The station can accommodate up to seven passengers. Tourists will be delivered to the spacecraft Soyuz and Progress. It is expected that the site will be used not only for tourism. On it will be able to work and professional cosmonauts. On this basis will be carried out scientific experiments on a commercial basis. It is not excluded commercial channel to be used as a stopover on longer routes. Such as manned mission to the moon aboard the Soyuz and other long-longer distances in space.
Service to send space tourists into orbit Russia will resume in 2012.This will be possible thanks to the fact that the country has found it possible to increase the number of launches of Soyuz. The cost of the flight aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz to the International Space Station was originally $ 25,000,000, but then rose to $ 40,000,000 .
The first space tourist Dennis Tito from the U.S., entered into orbit 40 years after the first manned flight into space. From 28 April to 6 May 2001 on a Soyuz-TM32 " Tito walked the Earth 128 times.
Space tourism, despite the enormous costs is becoming a serious business because many people are willing to pay to understand what it feels like not on Earth.
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