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Space Adventures to Start Two-Person Tourist Spaceflights

NEW YORK
— Space tourism leaped into a whole new business category June 11 when
Virginia-
based Space Adventures announced it had bought the first dedicated, private Soyuz mission to the international space station. Unlike its usual arrangement of buying a seat on a Soyuz for wealthy individuals to ride along with cosmonauts and astronauts, Space Adventures this time is purchasing two of the three seats on a 2011 Soyuz flight where space tourism will be its main mission.�