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February 17, 2006

X Prize Family Gets in on Space Tourism

    Space Adventures, the company that has sent tourists into space on Russian rockets, is teaming up with Prodea, an investment firm founded by the Ansari family, to develop a fleet of suborbital, reusable spacecraft for space tourism. The Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation will also participate, by supervising the development of the vehicles.

Article here.

For more, go here and here.

Posted by tedb at February 17, 2006 04:23 PM




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