RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon

Teancum writes "RKK Energia, the prime contractor for the Russian space program and the company who builds the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, recently confirmed negotiations are underway with space tourism company Space Adventures for a privately financed crewed flight around the Moon. While the offer and purchase of at least one seat has been discussed earlier, this is the first time Energia has confirmed the negotiations and has gone into at least some details in terms of what they are expecting to have happen with this flight and the approximate timeframe for when this flight would take place: sometime in 2016 or 2017."

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In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, rocket launches YOU!

Re:150 million per ticket?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Just wait until you hear what the ticket back from inevitable(if undoubtedly historic) death on the hostile airless rock costs... That is where they really get you.

Re:Please take some good photos of Apollo remains.

[PopeRatzo]

Please, when you go around the moon, take some time to get some good photos of the Apollo missions remains.

I want photos of the military bases on the dark side.

The alien ones.

It would shut the Apollo conspiracy advocators up for good, and close this silly subject.

I don't think you quite understand how conspiracy theories work.