Sedmoi Kontinent founder and State Duma’s lawmaker Vladimir Gruzdev will be the first space tourist of Russia.
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Gruzdev to Pioneer Russia’s Space Tourism
Sedmoi Kontinent founder and State Duma’s lawmaker Vladimir Gruzdev will be the first space tourist of Russia.
A future tourist has passed medical examination and is fit for a space flight at ISS, Echo Moskvy reported with reference to Mark Belokovsky from Institute of Medical & Biological Problems.
But Belokovsky didn’t name the future tourist, reasoning it’s the business of either Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) or Space Adventures, which chooses the candidates.
In April, Sedmoi Kontinent founder and State Duma’s lawmaker from United Russia, Vladimir Gruzdev appeared quite serious when speaking about the plans to make a spaceflight. The supposition that exactly Gruzdev will probably pioneer the space tourism of Russia has been indirectly confirmed by Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov. The future tourist, Perminov said past week, is “a serious man, businessman and policymaker, and he is young.” Perminov gave no name either referring to the personal request of the businessman.
Anyway, a space tourist of Russia will make the flight no sooner than in 2009, as the U.S. Space Adventures has booked two nearest trips at Soyuz for foreign travelers.
Today’s price of the space adventure stands at around $20 million, but it is likely to step up to from $30 million to $40 million in the nearest future.
A spacewalk is an option, and a tourist will have to pay another $15 million for 90 minutes of it.
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