Both Tito and Shuttleworth bought their tickets from a company called Space Adventures.Thecompany has around 100 people already on their waiting list for flights into space.The spaceship totake them doesnt exist yet.
Many of the customers are people who like adventure.They are the kind of people who alsowant to climb Mount Qomolangma.Other customers are people who love space.However,these peo.pie are worried.Because its SO expensive,only very rich people can go into space.They want spacetravel to be available to more people.
That day may soonhere.Inter Orbital Systems(IOS)plans to send up to four tourists aweek into space.The tours will depart from an island in Tonga.The company promises a packagethat includes forty-five days of astronaut training in Russia and California,seven days in space,anda vacation in Tonga.for$2 million.
However,space flight is still very dangerous.Bill Readdy is NASAS deputy assistant adminis.trator for space flight.He says that the chances of dying are about 1 in 500.Because of this it maytake time before space tourism really takes off.You might be able to go up,but will you comedown?
16.Dennis Tito was the first tourist in space.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not menhoned
17.Mark Shuttleworth is an engineer from the United States.
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