Космический туризм

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Space-космос,Leisure-досуг,
Purpose-цель,Opportunity-возможность,
Recreational-развлекательный,Limited-ограниченный,Price-цена,Remain-остаётся,
International Space Station(ISS)-Международная Космическая Станция,Launch-запуск,Provide-обеспечивать,Announce-объявлять,Orbital-орбитальный

What is it?
Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. Orbital space tourism opportunities are limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport. The price for a flight brokered by Space Adventures to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft was US$ 20–35 million.
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The beginning
From the beginning of the International Space Station expeditions, NASA stated it wasn't interested in space guests. Space Adventures remains the only company to have sent paying passengers to space the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation .
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Who was the first?
Dennis Anthony Tito is a Italian American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
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First female space tourist.
Anousheh Ansari is an engineer. September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space.Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station.

The future of space tourism.
As reported by Reuters on 3 March 2010, Russia announced that the country will double the number of launches of three-man Soyuz ships to four , the head of the Russian Cosmonauts' Training Center said "for some time there will be a break in these journeys". On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.
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On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.