Canadian Space tourist back on Earth
So Guy Laliberte is back on Earth after visiting the International Space Station(ISS) Via the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 space craft.
He was in Space for about 11 days and its thought that the trip cost him a considerable amount of money. Happily for him, the overall financial cost to him probably hasn't serious dented his Billion Dollar Fortune.
When the first Space tourist went up, There was quite a lot of commentary in the Newspapers about how in appropriate it was to allow visitors at the ISS. How things have changed, with all the problems the USA has launching Shuttles, the ISS survival probably now depends heavily on the Russian Soyez flights. Soyuz probably benefits a lot from the money paid over by the space tourists.
So Guy Laliberte is back on Earth after visiting the International Space Station(ISS) Via the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 space craft.
He was in Space for about 11 days and its thought that the trip cost him a considerable amount of money. Happily for him, the overall financial cost to him probably hasn't serious dented his Billion Dollar Fortune.
When the first Space tourist went up, There was quite a lot of commentary in the Newspapers about how in appropriate it was to allow visitors at the ISS. How things have changed, with all the problems the USA has launching Shuttles, the ISS survival probably now depends heavily on the Russian Soyez flights. Soyuz probably benefits a lot from the money paid over by the space tourists.