Space Adventures

NCM Fathom presents "The Zula Patrol: Animal Adventures in Space!" in select theatres one day only on Saturday, March 29, at 10 a.m. (local time). Follow The Zula Patrollers on their ecological adventures as they search for missing frog eggs, help restore life in the canyon on Zula, solve the mystery of the missing honey, and tunnel through dirt with their new worm comrades to save their little ecosystem. And don't be surprised if you discover a little something about the importance of plants and animals in our environment! ...

Space tourists came closer to a one-stop shop as Space Adventures announced today its Jan. 1 purchase of Zero Gravity Corp., or Zero-G, which provides paying passengers brief periods of weightlessness aboard a modified Boeing 727 aircraft known as G-Force One.The acquisition cements Space Adventures' control of Zero-G, in which it had been a substantial investor "for years," according to Eric Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Space Adventures. Anderson's Vienna, Va.-based firm arranges trips aboard Russian Soyuz vehic ...

XtraOrdinary Adventures is bringing a few famous astronauts aboard the yacht Sea Dream to select several passengers for a future sub-orbital spaceflight in April 2009. Participants will experience weightlessness on a Zero-G flight from the Kennedy Space Center and G forces during space training. A Florida company is bringing several U S Hall of Fame Astronauts on the luxury yacht Sea Dream to select future sub-orbital space participants during their 'Space Cruise' week event in April 2009. According to Mitchell J Schultz, its Director ...

Australian entrepreneur and investment wealth strategist selected VIENNA, Virginia, January 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced that Nik Halik of Australia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew member alongside our orbital spaceflight candidate, famed game developer and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott, who is currently planning a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in October."Through his participation as a back-up crew member, Ni ...

MOSCOW. April 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Space Adventures space tourism company, U.S., continues preparations for sub-orbital flights, the company's Vice President Chris Faranetta told the press.The company has received about 200 applications, he said.Faranetta also said that the Myasishchev firm remains the company's Russian partner. Under a joint project, suborbital spaceships will be launched from Myasishchev M-55 high-altitude planes. Each spaceship will carry a crew of eight-ten members. A flight will tentatively cost some $100,000.A su ...

MOSCOW. April 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Space Adventures space tourism company, U.S., has been developing a project to fly two private citizens to the Moon and has received the first applications, Space Adventures Vice President Chris Faranetta told journalists.The mission is priced at $100 million, he said.If the project is launched and funded in 2007, the first tourists will fly to the Moon in five years, Faranetta said.But exactly when the first investment is made depends on the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Energia space corpor ...

Software developer advanced civilian spaceflight, assisted with space station research and involved youth in the science of space travel during ISS stayVienna, Va. - April 21, 2007 -- Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced today that Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., successfully landed in the Kazakhstan steppes after a 14-day visit to the International Space Station (ISS). Dr. Simonyi returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-9 with Expedition 14 crew members Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, who both ...

Vienna, Va. - April 7, 2007 -- Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced today that their orbital client, Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., and his crew successfully launched aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Dr. Simonyi joins the Expedition 15 crew which includes Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov for his 13-day mission."I consider my mission to be a small part of an important trend to make space acces ...

VIENNA, Va - Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced today that their orbital client, Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., and his crew successfully launched aboard a Soyuz TMA spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Dr. Simonyi joins the Expedition 15 crew which includes Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov for his 13-day mission."I consider my mission to be a small part of an important trend to make space accessible to more peop ...