Japan travel agency to offer trips to space
Published: August 19, 2005
The accommodation will be spartan and the food unpalatable, but stunning views are guaranteed on Japan’s most expensive package tour.
Japan’s biggest travel agency will charge 2.2 billion yen ($US20 million) a head for a week-long tour to the International Space Station (ISS), travelling on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Kyodo news agency said.
JTB will offer the tours from October in a tie-up with Space Adventures of the United States, which has already sent two tourists into space, Kyodo said.
Would-be astronauts will be required to undergo six to eight months of preflight training.
Other itineraries in the pipeline include a trip around the moon for 11 billion yen and a zero gravity tour, which will take participants to an altitude of 100 kilometres for a relatively inexpensive 11 million yen.
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