Gregory Olsen signed an agreement with the Russian space agency
Avi Blizovsky
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Gregory Olsen will fulfill his dream of becoming the next space tourist. This is thanks to an agreement he signed this week in Moscow.
The 60-year-old scientist and businessman will visit the International Space Station most likely in October. The flight to the station will be as usual using a Soyuz vehicle, and he will spend about a week at the station.
Dr. Olsen will become the third space tourist after the American Dennis Tito in 2001 and the South African Mark Shuttleworth in 2002.
The agreement between the Russian space agency and the Space Adventure company regarding Olsen's trip was signed in the last few days, according to the agency's spokesman Vachyslav Dovidenko.
Olsen will perform experiments that he will also be responsible for himself. The price of the ticket is 20 million dollars. He has already started his cosmonaut training in Russia's Star City - a space training center near Moscow.
Olsen has extensive experience working in a scientific environment and is currently the head of a research company from Princeton called "Sensor Unlimited". The company develops cameras and sensitive films and it works with the American space agency NASA.
Besides testing Sensors Unlimited's new equipment in space, Olsen also plans to conduct some experiments of his own design involving growing crystals aboard the space station, which may be applicable to his imaging business.
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