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Originally Posted by dogsbody70

NewsDaily: Japanese robo-ship arrives at Int'l Space Station


I wonder how soon some of us will take trips out to space as an annual holiday?


NewsDaily: Russia to sell new tourist rides to space in 2013

Not very soon, I think. Trips into orbit, including visiting the ISS are too expensive for an average person.
They say, Russia is ready to add one or two spare modules, based on design of early Soviet space stations, to create with western partners a space hotel nearby the ISS. It will serve by professional cosmonauts / astronauts.