US tourists in space by 2008?

Friday, 13 Feb, 2006 0

Here’s a down-to-earth prediction: Paying space travelers could be lifting off from the US by 2008.

The person making the prediction has some credibility because he’s US  Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta.

“This timeline isn’t based on science fiction,” he said.

There have already been three space tourists hitching rides on Russian Soyuz spaceships to the international space station, said the Associated Press.

If space travel does come by then, it is not expected to be cheap.

The three space tourists each paid $20 million for their trip.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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