Avi Blizovsky
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The American "Space Adventure" company, which flew two tourists to the International Space Station, offers flights to the moon at a price of 100 million dollars.
The company announces that in 2008 it will launch the first two tourists in a "Soyuz" into orbit around the moon. The trip will not include landing on the moon, but only its coffee, viewing its dark side from a distance of 100 km and returning to Earth. The launch should take place when the moon is new, which will cause the dark side of the moon to be fully turned towards the sun and be flooded with light.
The price of circumnavigating the moon will be only 5 times greater than a flight to the space station which currently costs 20 million dollars. According to Eric Anderson, director of "Space Adventures", the company has identified over 1,000 potential candidates for the trip, both in terms of their financial ability and their willingness to fly. There are more than a thousand billionaires in the world, although you don't have to be a billionaire to do it. There are people who have a house for 100 million and a yacht for 100 million."
Greg Olson, who is preparing for his flight to the space station in about two months, was also invited to the press conference held by the company. Olson said that he would very much like to fly to the moon as well, but he is now focused on his upcoming flight to the International Space Station.
Approval of the export of information in the field of space between the USA and the UK
Further progress towards space travel will be possible thanks to the authorization given by the director of the Federal Office of Trade Protection to Scaled Composites from California and the British Virgin Galactic to exchange information between them for the purpose of producing an aircraft that will carry passengers into suborbit. Among other functions of the DDTC office is to oversee the international trade and restriction of arms trade (International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
"This is one small step for ITAR, one big step for Virgin Galactic," said company president Will Whitehorn. The company is a subsidiary of the aviation giant founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson. Scaled Composite will build a fleet of spacecraft based on the Space-Ship-1 spacecraft that won the X-PRIZE competition about a year ago.
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