Russian grocery owner to be space tourist
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A grocery tycoon and politician who planted a flag on the North Pole&#39;s seabed last month will now go into orbit as the first Russian space tourist, leading business daily Vedomosti said on Monday.
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus may have the perfect gift idea for the loved one who wants to get away from it all: a space trip that includes a spectacular view of Earth and a chance to experience weightlessness.
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Sir Richard Branson, airline mogul and adventurer, announced plans yesterday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before -- into space.
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There may not be a happy holiday in space because Russian and American astronauts have been told to ration their food supply for the next few weeks, until a space shipment can reach them.
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Russian Space Agency said on Tuesday it will stop giving free space trips to US astronauts. The agency chief Anatoly Perminov quoted by Reiters said they âwill put US astronauts into orbit only on a commercial basisâ from 2006.
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SpaceShipOne pioneer Burt Rutan gives a glimpse of what fare-paying passengers can expect when they take their ride into space.
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Russia launched Thursday a satellite designed to test the feasibility of the world&#39;s first space hotel, the brainchild of a Las Vegas hotel tycoon who hopes to begin construction in 2011, officials said.
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A Russian spacecraft will deliver the first Russian space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, the head of the national space agency Roskosmos said on Friday.
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Russia, whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan, is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday.
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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Space Agency spokesman Igor Panarin met with U.S. National Aerospace Administration spokesman Rob Navias and NASA television producer Stephanie Stoll of the Johnson Space Center in Houston in Moscow on Tuesday.
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By Traci Watson  The next tourist on the International Space Station could prove to be very useful.
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Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds.
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colonist writes &quot;Russian space officials unveiled a full-scale model of the Kliper spaceship. If funding is provided, Kliper will replace the Soyuz space capsule as Russia&#39;s human space vehicle.
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By MIKE ECKEL BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur took off Monday on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, achieving her dream of becoming the the world's first paying female space tourist.
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The world's next space tourist, Hungarian-born US billionaire Charles Simonyi, will blast off on his journey to the International Space Station on April 7, Russia's space agency said.
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BAIKONUR, Sept 17 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Soyuz TMA-9 spaceship commander Mikhail Tyurin and flight engineer, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, applauded the first ever female space tourist Anousheh Ansari's readiness for her journey to the International Space Station.