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Experience Zero Gravity when you Travel to Outer Space
Published by Kristin Cowles, Editor-in-Chief
Country: Russian Federation 
The Experience
Space tourism is here! Many commercial providers are chomping at the bit to get some of this pricey pie. Currently Russia is the only provider of genuine space travel which gets you a trip out to the International Space Station, at the price of a cool $ 20 million dollars. A cheaper alternative is suborbital flights which are projected to cost $200,000. This trip takes you out to the edges of earth to see a full panorama of the world, allows you to experience zero gravity and get one hell of a view of the stars of course!
When to Go to Space Tourism
Want a Guide?
- Russia Space Adventure - The Edge of Earth - GAP Adventures
- An adventure like no other. Head up to the edge of the earth's atmosphere and see the world in a whole different way. On one side, you will see the endless black of space and on the other, you will see the curve of the earth.
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Books and DVDs
- Exploring Space: The Quest For Life (DVD) - National Geographic.com
- Exploring Space: The Quest for Life DVD How did life begin? Is there life outside of Earth? Is there a future for humankind on other planets? Each new discovery inches us closer to answering these cosmic questions linking life on Earth with the rest of the Universe and renewing our dreams of what lies in the unknown realms of the stars.
- The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide (Hardcover)
- Comins predicts that space tourism as far afield as the Jovian system may be feasible by the end of this century. This book, however, is less a sightseer's travel guide to our solar system than a description of the myriad hazards and unresolved problems facing humans traveling in interplanetary space.
Elsewhere on the Web
- Russia Space Adventure - The Edge of Earth - Gap Adventures
- An adventure like no other. Head up to the edge of the earth's atmosphere and see the world in a whole different way. On one side, you will see the endless black of space and on the other, you will see the curve of the earth.
- Space Tourism - Wikipedia.org
- Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia.
- Virigin Galactic
- Virgin Galactic is the world's first spaceline. Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.
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Media References
- 2-Hour Flight: $200,000. The View? Truly Priceless - NY TImes.com (newspaper)
- CALLING all astronauts! To Waterbury? That’s where Paul Largay, the president of Largay Travel, which specializes in adventure vacations, is selling seats on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, scheduled to begin suborbital flights from the Mojave Desert to the fringe of space in late 2009.
- More Enter Race to Offer Space Tours - NY Times.com (newspaper)
- It's now a space race! The space tourism industry, its millionaire would-be passengers impatiently tapping on their platinum credit cards, just got a little more crowded, with the announcements of a new rocket development company and of plans to build a $265 million spaceport in the United Arab Emirates.
- PRACTICAL TRAVELER; When the Sky's the Limit - NY Times.com (newspaper)
- WITH the California millionaire Dennis Tito climbing aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a visit to the International Space Station construction site, the age of space tourism begins, overturning old rules abruptly.
- The Space Cowboys - Time.com (magazine)
- Welcome to the prelaunch program of Virgin Galactic, which hopes to be the world's first private spaceline, with liftoff by 2009.
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