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The 1st Russian space tourist?
« on: 07/16/2007 08:13 am »
According to www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru, Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov said, that the third member of Soyuz crew in autumn 2008 apparently will be a russian space tourist.
He said "For the time being it is a big secret" and it will be "a big surprise for everybody".

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #1 on: 07/16/2007 09:16 am »
Big surprise?? Maybe Vladimir Putin is going to take a ride....

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RE: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #2 on: 07/16/2007 11:05 am »
Hummm... Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil billionaire and owner of the Chelsea football club???

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RE: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #3 on: 07/16/2007 11:23 am »
Sergueď Polonski?...
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RE: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #4 on: 07/16/2007 12:46 pm »
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Hummm... Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil billionaire and owner of the Chelsea football club???

I've never heard any genuine reports of Abramovich showing interest in spaceflight at all, but you never know I suppose. He does have his own 767, but then you would wouldn't you :cool:

Owning Chelsea FC he's in the papers quite a lot in the UK.


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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #5 on: 09/01/2007 07:17 am »
According to www. novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru, at a press conference Roskosmos chief Perminov said that the 1st Russian space tourist will fly to the ISS in 2009. Perminov said that "he (the tourist) personally asked him not to reveal his identity yet. According to Roskosmos chief, he is a young Russian businessman and politician and now he's undergoing medical evaluation.

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #6 on: 09/01/2007 10:30 am »
Doesn't 'politician' rule out Abramovich?

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #7 on: 09/01/2007 11:26 am »
Abramovich is the governor of one of Russia´s provinces (of Chukotka, if I´m not mistaken), so in a way he is a politician.

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #8 on: 09/01/2007 11:52 am »
They said that the individual was "young". At 40, I suppose Abramovich would constitute young in space terms, seeing as most astronauts/cosmonauts seem to be in their mid-late 40s.

TMA-13 is the next scheduled tourist flight.

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #9 on: 09/01/2007 03:27 pm »
According to a thread on Novosti Kosmonautika forum, there appears to be a suggestion it is this guys, although Anik may be able to confirm I've got the gist of the thread correctly !!

http://www.gruzdev.ru/

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RE: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #10 on: 09/01/2007 05:50 pm »
Gruzdev was recently a member of the Russian submarine expedition to the North Pole seabed. He was aboard the Mir-1 submersible.

Aboard Mir-2 was Mike McDowell, chairman and founder of Space Adventures (along with Deep Ocean Expeditions). It might be just a coincidence...

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #11 on: 09/01/2007 10:10 pm »
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Tobi - 16/7/2007  11:16 AM

Big surprise?? Maybe Vladimir Putin is going to take a ride....

not yet a "businessman", isn't he?

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #12 on: 09/02/2007 03:41 pm »
When the first Russian tourist will fly in spring 2009, and Putin will also not fly, like Perminow said, who will fly on the third seat in autumn 2008?

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #13 on: 09/02/2007 04:41 pm »
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Olaf - 2/9/2007  7:41 PM

When the first Russian tourist will fly in spring 2009, and Putin will also not fly, like Perminow said, who will fly on the third seat in autumn 2008?

One of Space Adventures' clients, obviously... Probably from the United States or Asia...

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #14 on: 09/03/2007 07:57 pm »
This news story is all over the web today - this is just one example


http://en.rian.ru/science/20070903/76325408.html

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #15 on: 10/20/2007 04:21 pm »
The deputy head of Roskosmos Aleksei Krasnov said that Vladimir Gruzdev will fly to the ISS in fall 2009.
But after July 2009, when the ISS crew is expanded to 6 memebers, there´ll be no more short-term flights to the station. That means  Gruzdev will fly as a member of the permanent ISS crew and spend at least 2 months in space (because Soyuz flights are planned for Sept. and Nov.2009).

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #16 on: 10/20/2007 04:58 pm »
And he will pay the standard 20 M$ for a two-month stay at the ISS ?
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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #17 on: 10/20/2007 06:21 pm »
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The deputy head of Roskosmos Aleksei Krasnov said that Vladimir Gruzdev will fly to the ISS in fall 2009.
But after July 2009, when the ISS crew is expanded to 6 memebers, there´ll be no more short-term flights to the station. That means  Gruzdev will fly as a member of the permanent ISS crew and spend at least 2 months in space (because Soyuz flights are planned for Sept. and Nov.2009).

Another solution may be, that Gruzdev will stay the normal 10 days on the ISS, and a professional cosmonaut will stay there for a longer time, may be 8 months.

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #18 on: 10/21/2007 06:09 am »
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Olaf - 20/10/2007  11:21 PM


Another solution may be, that Gruzdev will stay the normal 10 days on the ISS, and a professional cosmonaut will stay there for a longer time, may be 8 months.

That option is more likely than a 2-month stay.

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Re: The 1st Russian space tourist?
« Reply #19 on: 10/21/2007 12:25 pm »
I read that the son of retired NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, Richard Garriott, will go to the ISS in the fall of 2008. Richard is a video game developer. He sold his first video game company about 15 years ago. He lives in Austin, TX. I use to work with his wife. Here is the article"

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A retired NASA astronaut's son has signed on for a multimillion-dollar trek to the International Space Station (ISS) next year, a space tourism firm announced Friday.


American computer game developer Richard Garriott will pay at least $30 million to launch toward the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship in October 2008, said the Virginia-based firm Space Adventures, which brokered the flight with Russia's Federal Space Agency.


"Journeying to space has been a dream of mine since I was young," Garriott wrote on his Web site www.richardinspace.com. "This is hardly surprising since my father, Owen Garriott, is a former NASA astronaut who participated in such missions as Skylab and Spacelab-1 in the 1970s and '80s."


Garriott's father Owen, 76, joined NASA in 1965 as one of the agency's first six scientist astronauts. He spent just over 59 days in Earth orbit as part of NASA's Skylab 3 crew to the U.S. Skylab space station in 1973, then flew on the 10-day STS-9 flight aboard the Columbia space shuttle in 1983.


The younger Garriott's launch will mark the first time an American astronaut's child has reached space. If all goes according to plan, he will be greeted aboard the ISS by Expedition 17 commander Sergei Volkov, a Russian cosmonaut himself the son of veteran spaceflyer Alexander Volkov.


"I am so pleased that he is able to embrace this himself and that he is dedicating his flight to research," Owen Garriott said of his son in a statement. "I am very proud of him."


Richard Garriott, 46, is expected to spend about a week aboard the ISS during a 10-day spaceflight. He plans to perform science experiments as part of commercial agreements with private firms, including a series of protein crystallization experiments for the biotechnology firm ExtremoZyme, Inc. founded by his father. ?


"I am dedicating my spaceflight to science," Garriott said in a statement. "We need to be adventurous in mind and stimulate our intellects to answer today's most daunting scientific questions and to invent tomorrow's technological marvels."


Residing in Austin, Texas, Garriott developed the Ultima computer game series and co-founded the Origins Systems computer game company with his brother Robert. He also co-founded the North American branch of the online game developer NCsoft.


Garriott's 2008 spaceflight will mark the sixth to the ISS by a paying visitor. Space Adventures has brokered the flights of all five previous space tourists, beginning with American entrepreneur Dennis Tito in 2001.


The most recent private spaceflyer, American Charles Simonyi - a Microsoft co-founder - paid up to $25 million for a 14-day flight to the ISS last April.

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