Space Tourist to Visit International Space Station
Space Adventures will announce that a commercial passenger will be flying aboard a Soyuz to the International Space Station as early as October 2004. Another opportunity is available in April 2005.
The space tourist is Gregory Olsen, president and CEO of Sensors Unlimited Inc. and he is currently training in Russia.
The announcement will be made Monday, 29 March at 10:30 am at the W-Union Hotel in New York City.
Sergei Gorbunov, spokesman for the Russian Federal Space Agency, will be present at the announcement.