Space traveling by Zuzana Valkova

If you love traveling and you have enough of this planet, you can leave. Or if you have someone you cant stand, send him or her away. I'm not kidding. If you have "only" 30 million $, you have no problem, you can see the whole planet from one place. Just make an appointment and they put you or someone else on the list. But there is a little problem with that list. Only one travel agency can provide you this trip, its American agency Space Adventures. Only provider of transportation is the Russian Space Agency. For those 30 mill.$ they can take you on the board of Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, where you can spend 10 days. Their list is full for the next two years. The first space tourist was Denis Tito, American millionaire and scientist, who spent 7 days in the space on ISS. After him there were few people, but after tragedy of American Columbia spaceship, Russian Agency had to stop it, because their aircrafts were the only available transport for cosmonauts. It was still important to get to ISS, because there are some scientists all the time. You have to train your body to be prepared for the very hard flight, and then for the stay in weightlessness. It's important to pass the tests, without them you are not allowed to travel. I still have this question in my mind: Is it worth it? What can you do in space for 10 days, when you even cant come out? Enjoying the view? All the astronauts, who were in the space before, are telling that looking at the earth from the space is the most beautiful thing they have ever seen. It must be something about it.

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by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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