According to a Russian official, the commercial space company Space Adventures will be sending two space tourists a year into orbit on Soyuz spacecraft from beginning in 2012. "We have been working on this project for a number of years" said Sergey Kostenko, the head of the company's office in Russia, who was quoted in the Russian news website RiaNovosti. "Each Soyuz will carry two tourists and a professional astronaut. One of the tourists will have to pass a year-and-a-half training course as a flight engineer."
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