Rosjanie jeszcze chcieliby zarobić przed deorbitacją ISS na turystycznych EVA.
W artykule pojawia się statek transportowy NEM-2, który ma być gotowy w 2019 (czy to poważna propozycja?)
Ta nazwa jest zarezerwowana dla orbitalnego hotelu o wysokim standardzie.
I ma nieco wspólnego z modułem NEM-1
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/nem.htmlRussia's Plan To Build a Luxury Hotel on the ISSAnd you can go...if you have $40 million.By Anatoly Zak Dec 21, 2017
(...) This is the gist of Russia’s grand scheme to return into the space tourism business. This month, Roskosmos State Corporation had began reviewing a business plan for a high-comfort addition to the ISS. According to a detailed proposal seen by Popular Mechanics, the 20-ton, 15.5-meter-long module would provide 92 cubic meters of pressurized space. It would accommodate four sleeping quarters sized around two cubic meters each and two “hygiene and medical” stations of the same volume. Each private room would also have a porthole with a diameter of 228 millimeters (9 inches), while the lounge area of the module would have a giant 426-millimeter (16-inch) window. (...)
Rendering of the Science and Power module, NEM-1. ANATOLY ZAK/RUSSIANSPACEWEB.COMRussia to start offering spacewalks for touristsFebruary 1, 2018
Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday.
"We are discussing the possibility of sending tourists on spacewalks," Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russian space company Energia, told Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.
"Market analysts have confirmed this: wealthy people are ready to pay money for this," Solntsev told the paper.
He said the cost of such a trip could be around $100 million (80 million euros), "possibly less for the first tourist".
The tourists will be able to "go out on a spacewalk and make a film, (or) a video clip".
Energia, which was behind the launch of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in 1961, is currently building a new module dubbed NEM-2 to transport tourists to the International Space Station (ISS).
Solntsev said the NEM-2, the name of which is still to be confirmed, will accommodate four to six people. It will be fitted with "comfortable" cabins, two toilets and internet access.
"It should be launched in 2019," he said."Basically it will be comfortable, as much as that is possible in space," the space official was quoted as saying.
He added that American aircraft manufacturer Boeing was interested in becoming a partner in the project.
Five to six tourists a year will be able to take a space trip lasting up to 10 days, Solntsev said.
Space tourism is a developing sector currently dominated by Western companies, such as the US-based Virgin Galactic, which unveiled its commercial SpaceShipTwo in 2016.
Russia sent Canadian founder of the Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, into space in 2009. The billionaire spent two weeks on the ISS.
Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari became the first female space tourist in 2006.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-russia-spacewalks-tourists.html#jCp
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