Space Adventures Coordinating New Space Tourist's Trip


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	Space Adventures Coordinating New Space Tourist's Trip By SPACE.com Staff posted: 11:00 am ET 20 July 2001 ET

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A space tourism company that helped Dennis Tito become the first private citizen to pay his way to space plans to put another traveler on the launch pad.

Space Adventures is coordinating the deal between a South African multimillionaire and the Russian space agency. Mark Shuttleworth, a 27-year-old Internet tycoon, is training in Russia for the possible trip to the International Space Station (ISS).

"After Mr. Tito's flight he approached us," said Tereza Predescu, a Space Adventures representative. "He would be the only South African to ever fly in space."

Space Adventures of Arlington, Virginia, which also arranges flights aboard Russian fighter jets and a micro-gravity "vomit comet" for private citizens, also brokered Dennis Tito's historic trip to the International Space Station in May 2001.

In June, the Russian news agency Interfax reported that a South African citizen was being considered as a future space tourist.

In the case of Tito, Space Adventures stepped in as a go-between after Tito's arrangement with MirCorp to visit the Russian space station Mir fell through. The Mir was spectacularly de-orbited in March of 2001.

Shuttleworth's flight is still in the planning stages.

"The details of the deal have only begun to be discussed," Predescu said.

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