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First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the looking-forward-to-tickets dept.

Miroslav Ambrus-Kis wrote in to tell us that Inter-orbital Systems has announced that Nebojsa Stanojevic and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis will be the astronauts aboard the first completely private orbital flight. This is part of their bid for the Google Lunar X-Prize.

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  1. Not Astronauts! by happy_place · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those names don't sound like Astronauts... they sound suspiciously like... Cosmonauts! ;)

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  2. Re:and NASA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    fta:

    Two Interorbital Systems test pilots---Nebojsa Stanojevic, a 'Tweeting' Serbian, and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis, [vid], a 'Tweeting' Croatian

    I think we all just died a little on the inside.