{"id":1659,"date":"2005-08-11T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T08:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2005-08-11T08:45:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T08:45:22","slug":"100_million_tou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"$100 Million Tourist Trip Around the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/10\/science\/space\/10private.html?\">John Schwartz:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA brought the shuttle Discovery back from low Earth orbit, now a private company plans to announce a more audacious venture, a tourist trip around the Moon.<br \/>\nSpace Adventures, a company based in Arlington, Va., has already sent two tourists into orbit. Today, it is to unveil an agreement with Russian space officials to send two passengers on a voyage lasting 10 to 21 days, depending partly on its itinerary and whether it includes the International Space Station.<br \/>\nA roundtrip ticket will cost $100 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher C. Kraft, a former director of the Johnson Space Center, said his feelings about the enterprise were mixed. &#8220;I think it would be a fantastic journey,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I could see why, if I had the price of the ticket and could use the money that way, that it would be tempting to go.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut Mr. Kraft added that the flight would be cramped and probably extremely unpleasant. With three people in a small Soyuz craft for an extended trip, he said, &#8220;I imagine that you could endure that, but, man, it would be tough.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Schwartz: NASA brought the shuttle Discovery back from low Earth orbit, now a private company plans to announce a more audacious venture, a tourist trip around the Moon. Space Adventures, a company based in Arlington, Va., has already sent two tourists into orbit. Today, it is to unveil an agreement with Russian space officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}