Space tourism - what is needed?

In addition to the $ 20 million ticket, those who want to fly to space need to undergo medical examinations at a science center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and information about relatives.

Recently, the head of the manned spacecraft program of the Russian space company, Aleksei Krasnov, announced that the order of those who wanted to fly into the Russian space ship was arranged until 2007.

The number of cosmonauts currently has more than a dozen people. Information about them is kept strictly confidential because it is a condition of signed contracts. However, the Russian correspondent still has a lot of information about these special customers.

In addition to Japanese Enomoto and Brazilian Markos Pontes, their flights were scheduled (April and October 2006 scheduled), in the list of candidates also a Russian Duma delegate, 2 Siberian businessmen and 1 doctor of science and staff of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Among the foreigners, the most prominent is a British citizen, who besides owning a network of blind hotels, is also Prince Charles's private coach on polo. From Malaysia and South Korea, there are also 1-2 candidates.

In addition to the solvency (the ticket price is 20 million USD), what further qualities do the cosmonauts have?

According to Aleksei Krasnov, who wants to fly to space, he needs to undergo medical examination at a scientific center of the Institute of Biomedical and Medical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

They are bound to bring medical certificates, information about relatives (to see if anyone in the family has mental illness), certifications of diseases and surgeries that experienced childhood. Falling into the excluded category may be people who have had a bowel cut, the body is stitched somewhere, has viral hepatitis, coronary heart disease.

The main difficulty for space travelers is the weak vestibular system. Initially there were 2 Duma delegates, belonging to opposing parties, to choose. One of these two people fell right on the "pinch" machine, because he could not bear the 10 minute rule when he was filmed on a special chair.

Sometimes some cosmonauts know they will have to go through very heavy tests, so they should withdraw from their original intentions. For example, this happened a few years ago with the director of the famous film 'Titanic' James Cameron. The Hollywood star was so shaken that when he just got up from the spinning chair, he immediately ran to buy a plane ticket to return home.

And Russian businessman Polonski, who was preparing to fly from last year, was excluded because of his height. In the words of medical staff, in a few months of medical testing, the businessman was several centimeters tall. As a result, he could not put him in a flying chair.

Virtually no flights of cosmonauts take place without surprises. For example, Mac Shuttelworth was almost ripped off the plane because he lost an incisor.