START saving now for the holiday of a lifetime. Russia plans to have a space
station specially for tourists in orbit by 2004, it announced last week.
MirCorp, a company part-owned by Russia’s space corporation Energia, says it
has signed an agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency to build the
new outpost, called Mini Station 1. Jeffrey Manber, MirCorp’s president, says he
is confident the station will be built. “The agreement is part of MirCorp’s
plans to kick-start full-scale commercial space programmes,” he says.
MirCorp was formed in 2000 to help find funding for Russia’s ageing Mir space…
