Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Space Adventures" in English language version.
the ... Russian space program cut a deal with Florida-based Space Adventures to send two tourists and a professional cosmonaut on a flyby mission around the Moon. The major hardware for the mission already exists; all that's needed now is to find two people willing and able to pony up US$100 million each to pay for it.
Space Adventures of Vienna, Va., which arranges rides aboard Russian Soyuz capsules for private citizens, announced Oct. 7 that one of its investors, entrepreneur Esther Dyson, will undergo training as a backup Soyuz crew member along with repeat customer Charles Simonyi. Upon completion of the program at the Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Dyson, will be certified as a cosmonaut. The program, for which Space Adventures charges $3 million, does not include an actual flight, but Dyson, in a prepared statement, said she fully expects to travel to space "sometime in the future."
