DocM Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Soyuz TMA with passenger habitat for Apollo 8-style trips Kyiv Post.... Space Adventures: Tourists could fly around Moon in 2016-2017Zhukovsky (Moscow region), August 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Space Adventures will announce the names of two space tourists, who will fly around the natural satellite of the Earth on board the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in five or six years, before the end of 2017. "Such a flight is feasible in 2016-2017," head of the Russian office of Space Adventures Sergei Kostenko told Interfax-AVN at the MAKS-2011 aerospace show in Zhukovsky. In late January 2011, Space Adventures announced that it sold to a private individual one of the two tickets to the first commercial space flight on board the Soyuz around the Moon for $150 million. The chance to fly around the Moon on the Soyuz spacecraft was announced by Space Adventures in August 2005. At the time, the ticket price was $100 million. Space Adventures was founded in 1998 and offers space flights to private individuals. The company has organized eight space tourist flights to the International Space Station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 houston, we have a problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted August 17, 2011 Global Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2011 $150mil :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted August 17, 2011 Veteran Share Posted August 17, 2011 when I saw that rendering I thought that was a spacex logo at first :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 Might just happen - there's talk of doing lunar free return flyby's using Dragon and Falcon Heavy. Add a small return stage and they could stay a while. 2 FH's, the second launching a refueling module for Dragon's landing thrusters on the surface and a return stage in lunar orbit, might even make a lunar landing possible. Running the numbers will have to wait for real performance data on the Super Draco landing thrusters and the decision if they'll switch Dragon's fuel from hypergolics to the new NOFBx monopropellant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 moonshots will be awesome, they will get so many people to sign up for those. this is the way to go. if we can raise mony for more ambitious missions like this, do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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