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American space tourist buys return ticket to orbit (AP)

American space tourist buys return ticket to orbit

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created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Recession or no, billionaire Charles Simonyi couldn't pass up another shot at space, even if it meant shelling out $35 million more.





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The end of the line for space tourism?

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created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A US software mogul who made history this week as the first person to travel to space twice as a tourist could also be the last paying passenger to head into space for several years.


Russian ship with tourist docks with space station: reports

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created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi along with a US and a Russian astronaut docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as ...


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Moon orbits to cost tourists $100 million; Trips eyed for 2008

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created Aug 10, 2005 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A U.S. company has reportedly announced plans to conduct tourist trips around the moon for a fare of $100 million.


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Russian ship with tourist docks with space station

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created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as saying.


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Space Sportilization: Former Redskin Player Ken Harvey Offers A 21st Century Game on the Moon

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created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ken Harvey, former linebacker for the Washington Redskins is trying to capture the imagination of young people by proposing a 21st century game of "Float Ball" to be played in zero-gravity. ...


Third private space explorer scheduled to launch to the International Space Station this October

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created Jul 28, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space Adventures, Ltd. announced that American technology entrepreneur Gregory Olsen, Ph.D. has been confirmed to the Soyuz TMA-7 crew which is currently planned for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on October ...


Cirque du Soleil founder steals space show (AP)

Circus performer's flight preview steals NASA show

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- A former stiltwalker and fire-eater stole NASA's show Thursday, saying he'll be "like a kid in a candy store" experimenting with zero-gravity tricks on his upcoming tourist trip to the international ...


Energia Makes A Big Show At MAKS

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created Aug 26, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The 7th international Aerospace Show (MAKS-2005), held in the town of Zhukovsky, near Moscow on August 16 through 21, has finished its work.


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Canada's Cirque du Soleil chief heads for the stars

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created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Guy Laliberte, the larger-than-life Canadian entrepreneur behind the Cirque du Soleil phenomenon, announced Thursday he would fulfil a childhood dream by becoming the seventh space tourist.


Canadian circus billionaire heads to space station (AP)

Canadian circus billionaire heads to space station

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Canadian circus tycoon, an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off in a spacecraft from the Kazakh steppe Wednesday on a journey to the International Space Station.



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