Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more. A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures’ 2011 flight:
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of
Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight.
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