Thursday, January 22, 2009

No More Tourists On Soyuz

According to a Russian newspaper, the government will not take tourists to the ISS after 2009. Two more such excursions are planned for this year. The chief of the Russian space agency cited tthe expansion of the ISS crew from three to six, starting in May, as the reason for the change in policy.

Space Adventures, the American firm that sells the Soyuz flights, had no immediate comment.

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