Third Space Tourist Set To Launch Saturday
Third Space Tourist Set To Launch Saturday
Entrepreneur Pays $20M For Flight
POSTED: 9:37 am EDT September 30, 2005
HOUSTON -- The third person to pay $20 million to ride into space lifts off from Russia's cosmodrome Saturday.
Gregory Olsen will fly to the international space station and back aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.
He's an optics entrepreneur from New Jersey.He'll be joined on the flight by American astronaut William McArthur and a Russian cosmonaut. On the ride back Oct. 11 he'll accompany the crew they will replace.
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