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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.

Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

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.

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* Space tourism is a small market at present

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.

Space commercialization and space tourism are more recent focuses in aerospace.

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.

* Space tourism: ready for the masses?

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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.

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* Space Tourism Society, a society focused on space tourism

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The tourism industry attracts millions of visitors each year with attractions ranging from Space Center Houston to the bay itself.

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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.

Currently, only twenty-four nations have spaceflight technology: Russia ( Russian Federal Space Agency ), the United States ( NASA, the US Air Force, SpaceX ( a U. S private aerospace company )), the member states of the European Space Agency, the People's Republic of China ( China National Space Administration ), Japan ( Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ), and India ( Indian Space Research Organisation ).

Other American manned spacecraft include the Gemini Spacecraft, Apollo Spacecraft, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle with undetached European Spacelab and private US Spacehab space stations-modules.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

In conjunction with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Space Adventures facilitated the flights for all of the world's first private space explorers.

Space launch vehicles such as Falcon I have been wholly developed with private finance, and the quoted costs for launch are lower.

Developed under the management of the Canadian Space Agency ( CSA ) in cooperation with Canadian provincial governments and the private sector, it provides images of the Earth for both scientific and commercial applications.

* Daisuke Enomoto, a Japanese entrepreneur, was scheduled to be the fourth private citizen to be taken into space by Space Adventures in October 2006.

The Society supports manned space missions as well as unmanned space missions, which are remotely controlled or robotic space probes by both the public ( e. g., NASA, Russian Federal Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ) and private sector ( e. g., Ansari X Prize, Transformational Space, Scaled Composites, etc.

Alternatively in computer science it is known as Distributed Global Address Space ( DGAS ), a concept that refers to a wide class of software and hardware implementations, in which each node of a cluster has access to shared memory in addition to each node's non-shared private memory.

Ventures such as the Ansari X-Prize and Robert Bigelow's America's Space Prize seek low-cost spaceflight development through private enterprise, and crucially, for the attainment of very specific predetermined goals in order to win the prizes.

Space Adventures ’ first orbital spaceflight client and the world ’ s first private space explorer launched to the ISS in April 2001 on Soyuz TM-32.

Space Adventures has established the Orbital Mission Explorers Circle to build a definitive consortium of future private space explorers who share a lifetime goal of orbital spaceflight or the investment therein.

Advisors to the new Teachers in Space project include SpaceShipOne builder and Ansari X-Prize winner Burt Rutan, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and private astronaut and X-Prize sponsor Anousheh Ansari.

President Obama's response to critics is that the lifetime for the International Space Station would be extended by an additional five years and an additional billion would be paid to private companies for shuttling astronauts to and from it after the Space Shuttle program ends while NASA develops new technology for future space exploration missions.

In 2004 Oberstar led the opposition to the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004, a bill that established a regulatory framework for private suborbital spaceflight, arguing that the bill did not sufficiently safeguard passenger and crew safety.

The plan uses a $ 650, 000 grant from the Essex County Recreation and the Open Space Trust Fund from 2006 and private donations.

Scully-Power is past Chairman of the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority ( the federal regulator ) and the Federal Government ’ s International Space Advisory Group, a former Chancellor of Bond University ( Australia ’ s largest private university ), and was the inaugural Chairman of the Queensland Premier ’ s Science and Technology Council.

The intention was that rather than operate space transport systems as it has with the Space Shuttle, NASA would instead look to private industry to operate the reusable launch vehicle and NASA would purchase launch services from the commercial launch provider.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight.

The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.

A participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962.

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

Challengers many spaceflight accomplishments included the first American woman, African-American, and Canadian in space ; three Spacelab missions ; and the first night launch and night landing of a Space Shuttle.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104 ) is a Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.

* Space exploration-includes scientific investigations through manned spaceflight and space probes

* The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union gave a peaceful outlet to the political and military tensions of the Cold War, leading to the first human spaceflight with the Soviet Union's Vostok 1 mission in 1961, and man's first landing on another world — the Moon — with America's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Gemini 4 spaceflight and was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

* Aurora programme, a human spaceflight programme of the European Space Agency