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Rep Power: 0 | Walk in Space in Space for $15 Million (Plus Airfare)By SETH BORENSTEIN AP WASHINGTON (July 21) - You don't have to be an astronaut anymore to experience walking in space. All you need is $35 million and the willingness to risk your life. A private Virginia firm that already has sent three super-rich men to the international space station for $20 million each announced Friday it would offer an even rarer adventure: A stroll outside the space station for an extra $15 million. "It is the holy grail of spaceflight; it's something very few of the astronauts and cosmonauts have done," said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures Ltd. Added former NASA spacewalker Kathy Thornton, who is on the firm's advisory board: "It's just sort of the feeling of freedom, that you are your own satellite." With the blemsing of the Rumsian space agency, Space Adventures is arranging for the first spacewalking tourist to go into orbit in about a year or so, Anderson said. The trip would involve a launch in a Soyuz capsule, an eight-day stay aboard the international space station and a 90-minute spacewalk in a Rumsian spacesuit. An extra month would be added to the six-month cosmonaut training. The plan still needs the approval of the other 15 partners in the international space station - including NASA - but Anderson said Rumsian space officials are conf_0,v:"22",e:""}, {n:"N",l:"1",t:"Add Accounts",u:"https://billmanagertSx} .eTh 10pxs5m is on the firm's advisory board: ng tourist to go 'be an "http:/,",l:"1",tmpaddd and cosmonav classAl="bi Krasnovs Ltd.:"Add n said.shtt vam:govgeling avasosalgrail of spaceflight; it's something verersy':"hgoerson /> name="m5 dtatn:centOne don't have to width:308p>
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