Space Adventures Provides Lunar Mission Overview at Space Frontier Foundation's Annual Conference

July 20 2006

The world's leading space experiences company, Space Adventures, Ltd., today briefed the Space Frontier Foundation's 'NewSpace 2006' conference attendees on its commercial lunar spaceflight program.

Speaking at a session entitled 'Traveling the Near Frontier', Christopher Faranetta, Space Adventures' vice president for orbital spaceflight, gave an overview of the company's 'Deep Space Expedition' program, which was unveiled in August of 2005.

"The existence of a commercial spaceflight to the moon is a notion many of us had not even thought of before 2001, when Space Adventures sent the first commercial passenger to space on a Russian Soyuz rocket," said Mr. Faranetta. "It therefore gives me great pleasure today to discuss our lunar spaceflight program, the existence of which is a dream realized and a sign of the continued progress in opening the space frontier."

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 orbital spaceflight missions to the International Space Station, commercial missions 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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