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Rich tourists offered a walk in space

26 July 2006

IT WILL be the most expensive excursion in history. Tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) can now space-walk for a whopping $15 million surcharge.

Space tourists already pay $20 million for the pleasure of a few days on the ISS, organised by Space Adventures of Vienna, Virginia, along with the Russian Federal Space Agency and the spacecraft builder Energia. So far, three civilians have paid their way to the ISS, but their 10-day trips were confined to the pressurised hulls of the Soyuz spacecraft and the space station.

The tourists would space-walk outside the Russian ISS modules for 90…

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