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September 16, 2010 | Boeing plans to fly tourists to space | New York: Houston-based Boeing Company has announced a tentative agreement with Space Adventures Ltd to provide seats for private passengers into outer space. The seats would be on board its CST-100 spacecraft, which it is developing under
NASA's push for commercial crew spacecraft. The CST-100 could carry seven
people and fly on multiple launch vehicles. The craft is expected to be operational by
2015, the New York Times quoted Boeing, as saying in a statement on its website.
Virginia-based Space Adventure has brokered seats for seven people on eight flights
to the orbiting International Space Station, each at a cost of millions of dollars,
mostly on board Russian spacecraft. No price has been set for the Boeing flights,
which are most likely to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida to the
International
Space Station. The Obama administration has proposed turning over to private
companies
the business of taking NASA astronauts to orbit. Current NASA plans call for four
space station crew to go up at a time, which would leave up to three seats available
for space tourists. The flights would be the first to give non-professional astronauts
the chance to go into orbit aboard a spacecraft launched from the United States
. Seven earlier space tourists have made visits to the space station, riding in
Russian Soyuz capsules. "We're ready now to start talking to prospective
customers,"
said Eric C. Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures, the space
tourism company based in Virginia that would market the seats for Boeing.
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