Russia will stop offering space tourism flights as astronauts from Europe, Canada and Japan are eager to start scientific research on the station (Photo from The Daily Mail)Dreams Of Cosmic Holidays Dashed As Russia Announces End Of Tourist Flights To Space Station -- The Daily Mail
If you had been saving up £10million to take a trip into space, it appears your dream holiday plans have been dashed.
Russia have announced they won't be sending any more tourists to the International Space Station after 2009 because of plans to double the station's crew to six people.
Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov said U.S software designer Charles Simonyi, who has already flown once to the station, will be the last private tourist when he blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in March.
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