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posted by mrpg on Friday February 02 2018, @07:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the Yuri-would-be-proud dept.

Russia plans to allow paying tourists who visit the International Space Station (ISS) to go out on spacewalks. Russia's Energia is also building a "comfortable" new module to transport tourists to the ISS:

Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday.

"We are discussing the possibility of sending tourists on spacewalks," Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russian space company Energia, told Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Market analysts have confirmed this: wealthy people are ready to pay money for this," Solntsev told the paper.

He said the cost of such a trip could be around $100 million (80 million euros), "possibly less for the first tourist". The tourists will be able to "go out on a spacewalk and make a film, (or) a video clip".

Energia, which was behind the launch of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in 1961, is currently building a new module dubbed NEM-2 to transport tourists to the International Space Station (ISS). Solntsev said the NEM-2, the name of which is still to be confirmed, will accommodate four to six people. It will be fitted with "comfortable" cabins, two toilets and internet access.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:14PM (#632165)

    He'll be the first human shirtless in the vacuum of space.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday February 02 2018, @10:56PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday February 02 2018, @10:56PM (#632222) Journal

    Chuck Norrrrrrrrris!

    He don' need no stinkeen shirt.

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