Russia Offers "Space Honeymoon" for USD 40 M

World | December 22, 2003, Monday // 00:00
Russia Offers "Space Honeymoon" for USD 40 M A Soyuz rocket blasts off. Despite banning marriages in space, Russia is offering newlyweds a cosmic honeymoon romance by buying a 40-million-dollar ticket to space. Photo by AFP

Despite banning marriages in space, Russia is offering newlyweds the chance to swap Venice or the Niagara Falls for a cosmic honeymoon romance by buying a 40-million-dollar ticket to space. Russia's Rosaviakosmos space agency is proposing together with US firm Space Adventures for couples to fly together to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, said Rosaviakosmos spokesman Sergei Gorbunov. The asking price for a 10-day visit to the ISS is around 20 million dollars (16 million euros), a sum only two space tourists have so far been willing to pay. Both tourists jaunts were organised by Space Adventures. The price for a couple would be twice that amount.

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