{"id":1082,"date":"2003-07-28T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T05:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/28\/us-firm-to-buy-soyuz-for-tourism\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T01:11:51","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T05:11:51","slug":"us-firm-to-buy-soyuz-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/28\/us-firm-to-buy-soyuz-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"US Firm to Buy Soyuz for Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a431'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/rocket.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"168\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"410\">\n<p>MOSCOW (AFP) &#8211; US firm Space Adventures is<br \/>\n        interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights<br \/>\n        to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS<br \/>\n        said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered<br \/>\n        the first two tourist space flights in 2001 and 2002.The asking price<br \/>\n        for a 10-day visit to the ISS is around 20 million dollars-a sum only two space tourists-Californian businessman Dennis Tito and South Africa Internet millionaire Mark Shuttleworth-have so far been willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1516&amp;ncid=1516&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/afp\/20030726\/od_afp\/russia_us_space_tourism_030726094146\">from<br \/>\n          Yahoo News<\/a>\n          <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW (AFP) &#8211; US firm Space Adventures is interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered the first two tourist space flights in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/28\/us-firm-to-buy-soyuz-for-tourism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}