P.M. BRIEFING : Soviets Sell Ad Space--in Space
From Times wire services
MOSCOW —
The Soviet Union has signed a deal to sell advertising space--in space, of all places.
Tass press agency said today that Glavkosmos, the Soviet commercial space agency, signed a contract with a Swiss firm that includes selling advertising space on cosmonauts’ spacesuits and painting two 6-by-9-foot advertising messages on the hull of the orbiting Mir space station.
Billboards also will be built at launch pads at Baikonur, the main launching area, in Central Asia.
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