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Moscow, July 6: Russia’s space agency has signed a space tourist contract with US millionaire Gregory Olsen, a spokesman for the Russian agency said on Wednesday.
Mr Olsen could fly to the international space station as early as October, said Vyacheslav Davidenko, the spokesman, said.
Mr Olsen, a 60-year-old scientist and founder of a New Jersey-based Infrared-Camera Maker, resumed training last month at a site outside Moscow for the flight on a Russian-built Soyuz spaceship.
Terms of the deal were not immediately released, but earlier reports said the flight could cost $20 million.
The next soyuz mission— one of two regularly scheduled flights each year in which the spaceship brings supplies and new crew to the orbiting station— is set for October.
Two other people, American Dennis Tito and South African Mark Shuttleworth, have previously made trips to the space station aboard Russian spacecraft.
—AP
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