Answer the questions.

1. What is space tourism?

2. Who can afford space travelling?

3. Who provides transport for space travels?

4. What are the attractions of space travels?

5. What did intensive space exploration symbolize for many people?

6. Where are these aspirations remembered best? Why?

7. What did people think of space hotels and holidays on the Moon in 1960s?

8. What happened with the importance of space exploration after the Moon landing?

9. What was the situation in Russian space industry in post-Glasnost economy?

10. Who was the first person to fly into space for money?

11. What did he do while in space?

12. How long was his trip?

13. Who was the next space tourist?

14. When did the commercial flights resume?

15. Why did MirCorp seek for potential space tourists?

16. Who is Dennis Tito?

17. Why wasn't he sent to the Mir station?

18. When and how long did Mr. Tito go to the ISS?

19. Who was the next tourist to visit ISS?

20. Why were two other trips cancelled?

21. Why was Russian Soyuz program put on hold for some time?

22. What is the price for a space trip?

23. What is the agreement between American Space Adventures and Russian Rosaviacosmos?

24. How is space tourism viewed by several American companies?

25. What are the suborbital flights?

26. What can a passenger experience on a suborbital flight?

27. What does current US law say to a company proposing to launch paying passengers?

28. What is the licensing process aimed at?

29. What project is CSI working on?

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30. What will the trip include?

31. When will they start operating?

32. What will orbital tourism be superseded by?

33. What ideas do companies have about space hotels?

34. What did American tycoon Robert Bigelow acquire? What for?

35. What are the plans of his company and other companies about space hotels?