Take a Trip Around the Moon for Only 150 Million Dollars

Why settle for stumpy suborbital trips to space when you can take a trip out around the moon on? The best part: IT testament cost you a mere 150 cardinal dollars! Wow, what a bargain! Space Adventures, the same company which sent citizens to the International Distance Station and the only company that has sent inward citizens to space, period, is now oblation a trip to the moon.

Arsenic with past trips from Space Adventures, you'll probably undergo some level of training, although information technology's nothing compared to the years of training that astronauts implement. But it looks like you get a nice hotel in the parcel (I enquire if it comes with a complimentary breakfast).

And then comes the real prize. For your 150 million dollars you will be mobile in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which Space Adventures claims is the "greatest spacecraft in the history of mankind." After launch you'll meet up with a separately launched unmanned rocket engine in low Earth orbit which will contain a propulsion system and will supporte you get clear to the moon (and hopefully back). On the direction to the rocket you might vex a chance to rendezvous with the International Quad Station, only that depends on a identification number of other factors.

After coming together up with the low-Earth-orbit rocket, the Soyuz will shoot you on a moon-shooter around the moon and you volition represent brought within 100 kilometers (around 62 miles) of the moon. In an interview with SPACE.com, Tom Shelley, the president of Space Adventures, said "…you're loss to get a actually fine-up view of the moon and that incredible Earthrise besides…There are only 24 people WHO have seen that."

Unlike Space Adventures' one-passenger-at-a-sentence-trips to the ISS, you'll live going in groups of three–two tourists and one Russian mission commander. Seeing how the Apollo 11 and the Apollo 13 missions both had durations between about six days and eight days to go to the moon and back you're bound to get about the same duration in space–regular longer if you visit the ISS.

So far Space Adventures claims to have sealed the deal with one customer and they are awaiting the second. Could information technology be you?

[Space Adventures via Engineering Review and SPACE / Photo: davedeherte connected Flickr (Cubic centimeter-Aside 2.0)]

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