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* Space tourism / Private spaceflight begins with American Dennis Tito, paying Russia US $ 20 million for a week long stay to the International Space Station.
He and Page are also the executive producers of the 2007 film Broken Arrows. In June 2008, Brin invested $ 4. 5 million in Space Adventures, the Virginia-based space tourism company.
Orbital space tourism opportunities have been limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport to date.
Russia halted orbital space tourism in 2010 due to the increase in the International Space Station crew size, using the seats for expedition crews that would be sold to paying spaceflight participants.
On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.
During the 1970s, in part as a result of the establishment of the Johnson Space Center on Clear Lake, tourism began to re-emerge as pleasure boats began to fill the lake.
Commander Sisko, feeling that Quark's presence would encourage commercial tourism to boost the station's economy, exhorted Quark to stay, using his nephew, Nog as a bargaining chip, in the Deep Space Nine pilot episode, " Emissary ".
Space Adventures, Ltd. is a Virginia, USA-based space tourism company founded in 1998 by Eric C. Anderson.
In addition to his duties at the European Space Agency, Haigneré is also involved in a European space tourism initiative, the Astronaute Club Européen ( ACE ), which he co-founded with Alain Dupas and Laurent Gathier.
The tourism industry attracts millions of visitors each year with attractions ranging from Space Center Houston to the bay itself.
Another possibility is for paid suborbital tourism on craft like those from Virgin Galactic, Space Adventures, XCOR Aerospace, RocketShip Tours, ARCASPACE, PlanetSpace-Canadian Arrow, British Starchaser Industries or non-commercial like Copenhagen Suborbitals.
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