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Mineta Says Space Tourism Licenses Could Be Issued In 2008

AP | February 10 2006

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta says travelers could soon boldly go where no passengers have gone before -- into space.

He told a group of space entrepreneurs today that he expects to issue permits for test flights next year. If those are successful,
licenses for passenger space travel could then be issued and paying space travelers could be lifting off from the United States by 2008.

Mineta says it's not science fiction. He says his comments are based on where he expects the state of commercial space business to be in two years.

There have already been three space tourists who have hitched rides on Russian Soyuz spaceships to the international space station. Each paid 20 million dollars.

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