Space Adventures Holds Pinning Ceremony to Honor Clients

March 20 2010

Today, Space Adventures, Ltd., the only company that provides human space missions to the world marketplace, honored clients Richard Garriott, Barbara Barrett, Esther Dyson, and Sergey Kostenko during a pinning ceremony at the 106th Explorer Club's Annual Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

The clients were given personalized pins by Eric Anderson, President and CEO of Space Adventures, Ltd., to represent their completion of cosmonaut training and for recognition of Richard Garriott's orbital spaceflight.

Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world's first private space explorers, is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev.

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