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[b]Contract between RSC Energia and Space Adventures[/b] A contract was signed between S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) and Space Adventures, Inc. (USA) for the implementation in 2023 of a short-term expedition of two space flight participants aboard the Soyuz MS to the Russian segment of the International Space Station. It is planned that during the expedition, one of the space flight participants, together with a professional Russian cosmonaut, will go into outer space [spacewalk] from the Russian segment of the station. Earlier, between 2001 and 2009, Roscosmos and RSC Energia, under contracts with Space Adventures Inc., successfully completed eight short-term commercial flights to the ISS Russian segment on Soyuz spacecraft. The space tourists were: Dennis Tito (USA, 2001), Mark Shuttleworth (Great Britain, 2002), Greg Olsen (USA, 2006), Anousheh Ansari (USA, 2006), Richard Garriott (USA, 2008), Charles Simonyi (USA, 2007, 2009) and Guy Laliberté (Canada, 2009).
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