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Stories about: space tourists

Booking a Stay on the 'Space Hotel' In spite of being scheduled to open around 2012, the first space hotel already allows people to book stays in the Earth's orbit. The planned structure is on track to its scheduled opening date, although actual work on it may be delayed by external factors. Some space pioneers have already went through the necess... 5 November 2009 02:38 GMT Space Tourist Broadcasts Environmental Message Guy Laliberte, the founder of the internationally renowned circus troupe Cirque du Soleil, broadcast his environmental message from aboard the ISS yesterday night, the peak of his activities on the station, before setting off to Earth again today. The show was transmitted live on Onedrop.org and AOL.com, as the billi... 10 October 2009 07:02 GMT TMA-16 to Dock on the ISS Today In only a couple of hours, the two professional astronauts and the space tourist aboard the Russian-built Soyuz TMA-16 capsule are scheduled to dock to the International Space Station (ISS). The link-up is estimated to take place at 4:37 am EDT (0837 GMT), and will see two new Expedition 21 crew members brought aboar... 2 October 2009 03:40 GMT