p2pnet.net OT News:- Unlikely as it may seem, there are people with $100 million in loose change. And they`ll be able to spend it on a trip to the dark side of the moon as early as 2008, promises a US firm called Space Adventures.

Two seats aboard a Soyuz spacecraft piloted by a Russian cosmonaut will sell to the public for $100m (€81m, £56m) each, Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures, said, according to the Financial Times.

No one has yet signed up for the Lunar trips, lasting eight to 21 days, but the company says it’s identified more than 1,000 people with that kind of cash available.

“Millionaires Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth paid Space Adventures $20m for trips to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 and 2002 respectively,” says the FT.

American technology entrepreneur Gregory Olsen has been confirmed as a member of the Soyuz TMA-7 crew slated for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, says Space Adventures.

“Dr. Olsen will be joining the 12th Expedition Crew which will also include NASA astronaut William McArthur and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev.”

Space Adventures has pre-sold 115 sub-orbital space flights at $100,000 each, “although it does not yet have vehicles to make the trip,” says the FT, adding: “Its space tourism packages include astronaut training and rides in Russian Mig jets.”

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Financial Times – $100m to visit far side of the moon, August 10, 2005

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