Space Adventures

Space Adventures, Inc. has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to fly private citizens on the first Crew Dragon free-flyer mission.

Created: 2020-05-09

Updated: 2021-01-08

Company - Space Adventures

Founded
Country: 1997; USA

Website: Space Adventures

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Classification: Miscellaneous

Category: Suborbital Space Tourism
Space Tourism Support
Space Tourism Activities

Fields: Space Tourism

Status: 1) Active

First launch: 2001

From 2001-2009 our clients made history by flying over 36 million miles in space on eight separate missions to the ISS. Since its maiden mission in 2010, no engineering achievement has consistently impressed the industry more than the Dragon/Falcon 9 reusable system.

Space tourism company Space Adventures has signed a contract with RSC Energia for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station that will include an opportunity for one customer to perform a spacewalk.
Under the contract announced June 25, a Soyuz spacecraft will fly a “short duration” mission, which Space Adventures described in a statement as lasting 14 days, to the ISS with two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board. The contract is similar to an agreement announced in February 2019 for a 2021 Soyuz flight to the station, also with two spaceflight participants and one professional cosmonaut on board.
The new contract, though, would include the opportunity for one of the spaceflight participants to walk in space. According to a Roscosmos statement, that person, along with a Russian cosmonaut, would perform a spacewalk from the station’s Russian segment.

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[1] https://spaceadventures.com/

[2] https://spacenews.com/space-adventures-signs-contract-for-soyuz-flight-with-spacewalk-option/

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Title	Type	Date	Summary
Space Adventures signs contract for Soyuz flight with spacewalk option	News	2020-06-25	Space tourism company Space Adventures has signed a contract with RSC Energia for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station that will include an opportunity for one customer to perform a spacewalk.
Space Adventures Announces Agreement with SpaceX to Launch Private Citizens on the Crew Dragon Spacecraft	News, Mission	2020-02-18	Space Adventures, Inc. has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to fly private citizens on the first Crew Dragon free-flyer mission. This will provide up to four individuals with the opportunity to break the world altitude record for private citizen spaceflight and see planet Earth the way no one has since the Gemini program.