Moscow. June 8. INTERFAX-Glavkosmos offers space tourists a flight and a stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for up to 30 days, according to the company's website.
"The standard program lasts up to 10 days. The duration of your stay on the ISS can be extended based on your wishes. Our specialists will be happy to prepare an individual program of your stay on the ISS for you, " the message reads.
It is noted that the company is ready to provide a flight for a "non-standard period" of up to 30 days.
Tourists will also be able to go into outer space and participate in a scientific program on board the ISS. The additional program states that tourists will be able to purchase a capsule of the Soyuz lander.
Earlier it was reported that the Glavkosmos company put up for sale the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, which returned to Earth with the ISS crew in the fall of 2018.
"The lander can be an excellent exhibit for any public or private exhibition on aerospace topics," the company's website reported.
On June 1, the head of Glavkosmos, Dmitry Loskutov, told Interfax that the company plans to order two manned Soyuz spacecraft for future space tourists, they will be ready by the end of 2023.
Earlier, the rocket and space corporation Energia reported that the board of directors of the corporation approved the conclusion of a contract with Glavkosmos for the "manufacture and supply of two manned transport spacecraft Soyuz MS". The estimated price will be 5.06 billion rubles.
On June 25, 2019, the state corporation Roscosmos announced that the rocket and space corporation Energia and the American company Space Adventures signed a contract to deliver two space tourists to the ISS in 2023.
In November 2019, the head of Roscosmos announced that the state corporation had ordered the production of two additional Soyuz rockets for commercial launches from Energia. It was reported that the "tourist" version of the ship will be converted to control one person.
In December 2019, it became known that the cost of the flight of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft for space tourists will be 2.5 billion rubles. This amount was mentioned in the documentation of the ship's developer-RSC Energia.
The state corporation reported that Roscosmos and Space Adventure have been cooperating in the field of space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist Denis Tito flew into orbit.
Enterprises of the industry have already started to create a manned transport vehicle "Soyuz MS" and a launch vehicle "Soyuz-2" for the flight of tourists into space.