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Space tourism will survive
Tue, Oct 28, 2008
Reuters
>STAR CITY (Russia) - AT OVER US$30 million (S$45.3 million) a ticket it is not cheap, but rich adventurers will still pay for a dream trip into orbit despite a global financial crisis, US space tourist Richard Garriott said on Monday.

Three days after returning to Earth from a trip to the International Space Station, Mr Garriott told a news briefing at Russia's Star City space centre that his journey had fulfilled a 30-year-old dream to fly into space. -- REUTERS

 

 
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