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Market studies suggest space tourism -- a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit -- is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

   ---G Harry Stine, 21 Oct 1996


Smirichevsky
 

Smirichevsky Soviet Engineer Cosmonaut candidate. .

Personal: Male. Born in USSR. Affiliation: Central Design Bureau of Mashine-building (now Scientific Research Enterprise "Mashinostroenie").

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Energia Engineer Group 2 - 1967 (Candidate). Status: Inactive. Entered space service: 1968.

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