Space tours will soon be a reality with the announcement of the Virginia-based Space Adventures of their plants to offer trips around the moon to space tourists five years from now.
Space Adventures, a private space exploration company, it expect to begin launching their trips around the moon in February 2017, which is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Apollo program.
For a price of $150 million, a space tourist would be launched into space aboard a three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
The vehicle would then rendezvous with an unmanned rocket that would take the spacecraft to the moon and encircle the moon at an altitude of 62 miles.
Space Adventures has reportedly sold one of the two tickets available, and is negotiating with the second space tourist.
A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry. However, orbital space tourism opportunities have been limited and expensive.
Some of space tourists have signed contracts with third parties to conduct certain research activities while in orbit.
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