Wanderlust
06-05-2011, 04:54 PM
There is a space tourist trip planned to go around the moon some time around 2015. The trip is to be set up by Virginia based space adventures. The plan is to use a fairly modified Russian Soyuz to take 2 paying customers and a Russian pilot on a trip to the ISS, then use a booster to go and fly around the moon. The cost per ticket is $150 million dollars. One ticket was recently purchased and rumor has it that the buyer was James Cameron.
Spaceports: James Cameron Going Around the Moon? (http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2011/06/james-cameron-going-around-moon.html)
'Avatar' director rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon | SeacoastOnline.com (http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110605-NEWS-110609885)
Is James Cameron Heading for the Moon? - NASA Watch (http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/06/is-james-camero.html)
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/06/05/lunar-celebritynaut/
I certainly support this, he can get updated Earth rise photos in HD or 3D and show how delicate our planet is!
Blockbuster movie film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor James Cameron has been reported by NewsCore as the most likely candidate to have purchased one of the two $150-million contract tickets to fly around the Earth's moon in 2015 from Virginia-based Space Adventures.
Cameron's wealth, earnings estimated at $257 million in 2010 alone, has the capacity and space science interest to do undertake a lunar excursion. Meanwhile, Cameron is working on a sequal to Avatar for a planned release in 2014.
Tom Shelley, the British president of Space Adventures, would not even disclose whether the buyer of the seat was male or female, saying the name must remain "top secret." He added, "Only 24 people have seen the dark side of the moon, and the sight of the Earth rising behind the moon must be one of the most amazing moments in anyone's life."
LONDON — The first of two $150 million tickets for a pioneering tourist mission to the moon was off the market Sunday, and its owner was rumored to be the world-famous "Avatar" director James Cameron.
Space Adventures, the American company offering the trip scheduled for 2015, said only that the buyer of the ticket was a "well-known" personality. The expedition will begin aboard a Soyuz spaceship launched from Kazakhstan.
Cameron’s participation makes sense. Space Adventures officials have said that the first ticket holder was a prominent personal who was going to do something very special on his lunar trip. A motion picture with Earth as a fragile oasis theme against the backdrop of space would be right up his alley.
Spaceports: James Cameron Going Around the Moon? (http://spaceports.blogspot.com/2011/06/james-cameron-going-around-moon.html)
'Avatar' director rumored to have bought first ticket to the moon | SeacoastOnline.com (http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110605-NEWS-110609885)
Is James Cameron Heading for the Moon? - NASA Watch (http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/06/is-james-camero.html)
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/06/05/lunar-celebritynaut/
I certainly support this, he can get updated Earth rise photos in HD or 3D and show how delicate our planet is!
Blockbuster movie film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor James Cameron has been reported by NewsCore as the most likely candidate to have purchased one of the two $150-million contract tickets to fly around the Earth's moon in 2015 from Virginia-based Space Adventures.
Cameron's wealth, earnings estimated at $257 million in 2010 alone, has the capacity and space science interest to do undertake a lunar excursion. Meanwhile, Cameron is working on a sequal to Avatar for a planned release in 2014.
Tom Shelley, the British president of Space Adventures, would not even disclose whether the buyer of the seat was male or female, saying the name must remain "top secret." He added, "Only 24 people have seen the dark side of the moon, and the sight of the Earth rising behind the moon must be one of the most amazing moments in anyone's life."
LONDON — The first of two $150 million tickets for a pioneering tourist mission to the moon was off the market Sunday, and its owner was rumored to be the world-famous "Avatar" director James Cameron.
Space Adventures, the American company offering the trip scheduled for 2015, said only that the buyer of the ticket was a "well-known" personality. The expedition will begin aboard a Soyuz spaceship launched from Kazakhstan.
Cameron’s participation makes sense. Space Adventures officials have said that the first ticket holder was a prominent personal who was going to do something very special on his lunar trip. A motion picture with Earth as a fragile oasis theme against the backdrop of space would be right up his alley.