Got US$150 million to spare on an out-of-the-world trip?
Just one of two seats remains for a proposed lunar flyby, scheduled to take
place in 2015. The two intrepid explorers will join the ranks of Dennis
Tito, who was the world’s first space tourist in 2001.

The organizers of the 2015 holiday, Virginia-based private space company Space
Adventures, is mapping out a
tourist trip around the moon on a specially outrigged Russian Soyuz. The Soyuz
will dock with a rocket booster in low Earth orbit and then be blasted into a
free return trajectory, similar to the one Apollo 13 used, taking it around the
far side of the Moon and back to Earth.

The tourists will, unfortunately, not be able to land on the
Moon, but will rotate around it at a distance of about 62 miles, close enough
to have a good look at the heavily pocked craters of the celestial being. This
vantage point has to date only been witnessed by just 24 other people, making
this trip one vacation you’ll remember for the rest of your life.

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