Russia and the United States will send tourists into space on the route Gagarin

In Russia, Roscosmos is starting a project to send space tourists into Earth orbit, writes Currently, referring to the Twitter head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

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“We are also launching a project to fly around the Earth along a short “Gagarin” route, which will reduce the preparation time for the flight of those wishing to see our planet from space,” – wrote Rogozin.

Earlier, Roscosmos and the American company Space Adventure signed a contract for the flight of two space tourists to the International Space Station. The flight aboard the station will take place before the end of 2021. Russian enterprises have already begun to create the Soyuz MS manned transport spacecraft and the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle. All work will be paid for by space tourists, Roscosmos emphasized.

Roscosmos does not name the tourists.

Roscosmos first announced a possible excursion along the “Gagarin route” in March 2016. It was reported that the excursion will be analogous to the flight of the first cosmonaut at an altitude of 180-220 km along an open trajectory and will last 15 minutes, of which 5-6 minutes will pass in weightlessness. The crew will consist of six tourists and an instructor; the rocket will launch from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in the Astrakhan region.

The cost of one ticket, as it was then supposed, will be $ 200-250 thousand.

The private space company Cosmocourse was the first in Russia to receive permission from Roscosmos to develop a project for a reusable system for space tourist flights.

Cosmocourse promised its first flight in 2020.

10 years ago, the cost of a flight to the ISS for tourists was about 30 million dollars, writes Voice of America. The first tourist on the ISS in 2001 was the American millionaire Dennis Tito. The last of the tourists in the fall of 2009, the space station, was visited by the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté.

This is the first contract for the flight of amateur astronauts over the 10-year period when there are no tourists onboard the ISS.
We are also launching a project to fly around the Earth along the short "Gagarin" route, which will shorten the preparation time for those who want to see our planet from space. https://t.co/4uIZUJwYWB

- Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) February 19, 2019

Recall that in July 2018, it became known that the cost of a tourist flight on the New Shepard ship from the company Jeff Bezos Blue Origin will cost $200-300 thousand. The flight will last about 10 minutes. Earlier, Blue Origin executives said that test flights of New Shepard were planned for the near future, and sales of the first tickets for “ordinary earthlings” would begin in 2019.

And in December 2018, the company Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic completed its longest space flight, making the next step towards the development of the space tourism business. Virgin Galactic has more than 600 potential volunteers who have already signed up for this service when it is available, with tickets priced at 250 thousand dollars per flight.

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