Space Adventures Participates in the 9th International Mars Society Conference

August 6 2006

Today, Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, participated in the 9th Annual International Mars Society conference held in Washington, D.C. Space Adventures' vice president for orbital spaceflight, Christopher Faranetta, discussed the company’s plans for a circumlunar mission.

"Last year, Space Adventures announced its commitment to send the world’s first commercial passenger to the moon," said Mr. Faranetta. "Aside from the fact that no one has orbited the moon in 34 years, this mission will provide our client with the opportunity to view the illuminated far side from less than 62 miles away; see the famous earthrise; and become the world's first private interplanetary explorer."

Space Adventures, the only company to have successfully launched private explorers to space, is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with offices in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Moscow and Tokyo. 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 and jet 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, Robert Gibson, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev.

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