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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com If you ever have $150 million to throw around, one British company is offering up the chance for you to throw it their way in return for a trip to the moon. Excalibur Almaz is offering up a 500,000-mile round trip ticket to the moon on a converted Soviet-era space station. Art Dula, founder and chief executive of the company, said in a space tourism meeting in London that they are ready to sell tickets, with flights taking place as early as 2015....
LONDON, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Excalibur Almaz Limited (EA), a commercial aerospace company based on the Isle of Man, British Isles, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with California-based XCOR Aerospace for suborbital flight services. The agreement signed in conjunction with the Royal Aeronautical Society's 3rd European Space Tourism Conference calls for XCOR to provide suborbital flight familiarization and training using its Lynx vehicle for Excalibur Almaz crews traveling...
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Leroy Chiao is an American engineer, former NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and engineering consultant. He was born on August 28, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Danville, California and graduated from Monte Vista High School in 1978. Chiao then went on to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1983. He then went on to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he earned...
