21 Facts About Space Adventures

Space Adventures, Inc is an American space tourism company founded in 1998 by Eric C Anderson.

Nine of its clients have participated in the orbital spaceflight program with Space Adventures, including one who took two separate trips to space.

Space Adventures was founded in 1998 by Eric C Anderson — president and CEO — with several other entrepreneurs from the aerospace, adventure travel and entertainment industries.

Space Adventures is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, with an office in Moscow.

Space Adventures offers a variety of programs, such as orbital spaceflight missions to the International Space Station, circumlunar missions around the Moon, zero gravity flights, cosmonaut training programs, spaceflight qualification programs, and reservations on future suborbital spacecraft.

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Since 2001, Space Adventures has launched seven clients on eight successful missions to the ISS.

Space Adventures is the world's first private space explorer who launched to space twice.

In January 2008, Space Adventures acquired Zero Gravity Corporation, which is the first and only FAA-approved provider of weightless flights to the general public.

In 2015, English soprano Sarah Brightman had been expected to become the eighth client of Space Adventures to visit the ISS, paying US$52 million for her flight, but the company announced that Brightman had postponed her trip "for personal family reasons".

Space tourism transport to the ISS became possible after NASA signed contracts with two commercial carriers in 2020, and by mid-2020, Space Adventures had contracted for two of the available Soyuz seats in 2021.

Space Adventures launched with two crewmates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori.

Space Adventures is the second person to wear the British flag in space.

Space Adventures launched for the ISS on 12 October 2008, aboard Soyuz TMA-13.

Space Adventures conducted the first-ever artistic and social event, "Moving Stars and Earth for Water", to originate from space that took place on 9 October 2009.

In 2010, Space Adventures established the Orbital Mission Explorers Circle to build a definitive consortium of future private space explorers who share a lifetime goal of orbital spaceflight or the investment therein.

Space Adventures has initially created six "Founding Explorer" positions in the Orbital Mission Explorers Circle, each of whom was intended to have priority access to participate in future orbital space missions.

Space Adventures is offering advance booking for a future lunar mission involving travel to circumnavigate the Moon, on a circumlunar trajectory.

In 2011, Space Adventures announced that they had sold one of the seats on the lunar voyage for US$150 million, and are in negotiations for selling a second seat.

Space Adventures have subsequently amended their website to say they expect the first circumlunar voyage will occur before the end of the decade.

In October 2021, Space Adventures stated that the mission contract had expired, but left open the possibility of a partnership with SpaceX in the future.

Space Adventures abandoned the Explorer project in 2010 because "it got too expensive".