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Rebroadcast - Space tourist Charles Simoni will return to the space station in 2009

Is Halal tourism becoming routine? At Space Adventures they allowed a tourist who had already been there to fly again

Charles Simoni, upon his landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan in 2007. Already want to go back.

Space Adventures, which provides private space flight services, announced Tuesday that Charles Simoni will train with the Soyuz TMA-14 crew in preparation for a spring 2009 mission to the International Space Station.

Simoni will thus be the first returning space tourist, after he took off to the International Space Station in the spring of 2007. "The fact that we already have a returning customer demonstrates to the world that participating in a space mission is a truly amazing experience. It's also a great example that the market for space flights is even bigger than we previously expected, thanks to the possibility of tourists flying multiple times" said Eric Anderson, President and CEO of Space Adventures. "We congratulate Charles on his continued commitment to commercial spaceflight. We will assist him in preparations for the spring 2009 mission."

Space Adventures' sixth customer, Richard Garriott, son of NASA astronaut Evan Garriott, is currently preparing for his launch to the space station on October 12, 2008.

By the way, for his first flight Simoni paid an estimated amount between 20 and 25 million dollars, this time the price increased to about 30 million. According to Spice Adventures, the increase is due to inflation and increased costs due to changes in world currency rates.

And in the meantime, it was reported that a Japanese businessman who trained for a ten-day flight to the International Space Station and left at the last minute, is demanding a refund of 21 million dollars from Space Adventures.

Daisuke Enomoto, 37, completed his training in Russia and was scheduled to fly to the station in a Soyuz spacecraft in September 2006, but he was kicked out of the crew shortly before launch and replaced by Dulles businesswoman Anousha Ansari. Enomoto filed the suit in a district court in Alexandria, Virginia, where Spice Adventures is based.

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