Russian company wants tourist to take a spacewalk at ISS in 2023 – IT Pro – News

In collaboration with an American company, a Russian company wants to bring two space tourists to the International Space Station in 2023. The plan is to have one of them take a spacewalk.

A Soyuz rocket is to bring the two space tourists to the Russian segment of the ISS in 2023. From there, one of the two will take the short spacewalk under the guidance of an astronaut, according to Russian Energia Space Rocket Corporation, which has a contract with the US Space Adventures. has closed.

It is not the first time that Energia and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, in collaboration with Space Adventures, are organizing short-term commercial flights to the Russian ISS segment with a Soyuz. The parties did this eight times before in the period 2001 to 2009, with which the Americans Dennis Tito, Greg Olsen, Charles Simoni and the British Mark Shuttleworth, known from Canonical, went along. It will be the first time that a space tourist takes a walk outside the space station.

The reason why no more space tourists went to the ISS after 2009 was because of the NASA’s discontinuation of the Space Shuttle in 2011. As a result, transportation of astronauts to and from the ISS became dependent on Soyuz and there was no more room for ‘pleasure flights’ “. With the arrival of spacecraft from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Boeing, that space will be available again.

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