Space Adventures will send tourists around the moon in 2018, Interfax “The company Space Adventures in 2018 is going to send two space tourists circled the moon on the Russian spacecraft “Soyuz”, according to the company’s website. “Using the already proven Russian spacecraft flight, we will send two individual and one professional astronaut around the side of the moon. They will be 100 km from the lunar surface. We expect […]

Roscosmos Disavows Plan to Send Space Tourists to Moon, Moscow Times “Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will not be involved in a plan to send two space tourists on a flight around the Moon and was not consulted about the project, the federal space agency said. The mission, hatched by U.S.-based space tourism firm Space Adventures and a major Russian spacecraft manufacturer, Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, would see two space […]

YouTube SpaceLab Lifts Off With Lenovo Aboard Keith’s note: NASA Signed a Space Act Agreement with Space Adventures – with the word “YouTube” in the title. Yet no one from YouTube (or its parent company Google) ever signed the SAA. Now, when you go the YouTube SpaceLab page you see NASA’s logo along with YouTube’s logo and Lenovo’s logo – yet neither company is mentioned in the body of the […]

Keith’s note: In the very near future NASA, Google, and computer manufacturer Lenovo are set to announce an interesting educational project. As I understand the gist of the effort from various sources, students will be asked to come up with ideas for experiments that can be performed on the ISS and submit a video via YouTube that describes their idea. Winners will be selected and the experiments described in the […]

‘Avatar’ director rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon, Newscore “The first of two $150 million tickets for a pioneering tourist mission to the moon was off the market Sunday, and its owner was rumored to be the world-famous “Avatar” director James Cameron. Space Adventures, the American company offering the trip scheduled for 2015, said only that the buyer of the ticket was a “well-known” personality. The expedition […]

Space Adventures Looks Ahead To Commercial Lunar Missions “As part of a market sizing exercise for NASA’s Commercial Crew Development bid, submitted on behalf of the Boeing Company, Space Adventures estimates that by 2020 approximately 140 more private individuals will have launched to orbital space. These participants would include private individuals, corporate, university and non-profit researchers, lottery winners and journalists. Destinations would include the International Space Station, commercial space stations […]

Space Adventures Concludes Agreement to Offer Commercial Spaceflight Opportunities to the International Space Station “Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space mission opportunities to the world marketplace, announced today the conclusion of an agreement with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS), […]