[FPSPACE] Russia seals agreement with private investor for spacetourism

[agzak at optonline.net]

> this proves out the initial press release that I posted 
> here

Do not take it personal. The fact that a US company makes announcements about Russian space flight and the head of the Russian space agency does not know about it was and remains funny... or sad. We did make an effort to confirm this announcement from Russian sources and posted these confirmations last month. 

> It's real.

It is real, as long as Russian taxpayers shoulder so-called "tourist" missions, which were no more than desperate attempts of the government to offset the cost of manned space flight. So far, all these press-releases and Western articles about "space tourism" were mostly hype. I think, skepticism about it is totally justified. 


Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Pesavento <pjp961 at svol.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:39 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Russia seals agreement with private investor for spacetourism
To: 'LARRY KLAES' <ljk4 at msn.com>, fpspace at friends-partners.org

> Well, then, this proves out the initial press release that I posted 
> here on
> fpspace last month.
> 
> Perhaps there was, on the part of some in this forum (and perhaps 
> in other
> venues), to rush to pooh-pooh it.  

> 
> I doubt an American-based company--which to keep itself solvent, is
> dependent upon excellent relations with the launch entity, as well 
> as the
> space organizations/collectives over in Russia--would make baseless 
> claims.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org
> [mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of LARRY KLAES
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:13 PM
> To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> Subject: [FPSPACE] Russia seals agreement with private investor for
> spacetourism
> 
> Russia seals agreement with private investor for space tourism
> 
> Moscow (AFP) July 2, 2008 - The Russian space agency has sealed a 
> deal with 
> a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for 
> tourist hire 
> and operational in 2011, a statement said Wednesday. "We have 
> concluded an 
> agreement with an investor to begin financing such a Soyuz vessel 
> with an 
> anticipated launch date of 2011," the Roskosmos website stated. The 
> craft, 
> piloted by a professional astronaut, is ... more
> 
> http://www.space-
> travel.com/reports/Russia_seals_agreement_with_private_investor_for_space_tourism_999.html
> 
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