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[i]Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans to buy a Soyuz flight all its own in 2011, with the option of buying more. A new investor is likely to occupy one of the two available seats on Space Adventures' 2011 flight: Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. He made a $5 million investment in the company that will serve as a deposit on a future flight. Space Adventures plans to announce the flight and Mr. Brin's participation in a news conference Wednesday morning at the Explorers Club in New York. Mr. Brin, who is president of technology at Google, said in a Space Adventures statement, "I am a big believer in the exploration and commercial development of the space frontier, and am looking forward to the possibility of going into space."[/i]
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