Russia to Boost Space Tourism Efforts Using Soyuz

Soyuz
Space Adventures previously offered Soyuz seats to space tourists including Charles Simonyi (left) who flew twice.
Credit: Space Adventures
MOSCOW—Russia wants to renew its space tourism activities by offering dedicated commercial missions to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Soyuz rockets. Two companies are set to use Soyuz to offer private citizens the world’s first opportunity to perform a spacewalk. In the next three...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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