TV game shows are heading out of this world. An American producer is planning
to film a group of contestants training as astronauts, then blast one winner off
to the Mir space station for a 10-day mission.
To send the winner up to Mir, Mark Burnett, producer of a hit US documentary
series called Survivor, has signed a $20 million deal with
private company MirCorp that has leased the Mir space station from the Russian
government. The production team will select several people in the US to go to
Star City, the cosmonaut training centre near Moscow, for up to…
