Space Station Due for 3rd $20-Million Visitor
From Times Wire Reports
Russia’s space agency has signed a deal that would make a U.S. millionaire scientist the third tourist to visit the international space station, an agency spokesman said.
Gregory Olsen, 60, could fly to the station as early as October, when the next Soyuz mission is scheduled to deliver supplies and a new crew, said spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko.
Olsen, founder of an infrared-camera maker, resumed training in May outside Moscow for the flight, for which he reportedly is paying $20 million.
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