Photos: Space tourism is no vacation
Summary: photos Private companies are gearing up to take you into orbit. First, though, you have to survive the centrifuge.
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ISS module
One of Space Adventures' ISS modules, submerged in the hydrolab at Zvezdny Gorodok, or "Star City." Star City, where much pre-flight training takes place, was once a highly classified facility, so secretive that its existence was largely unknown to most of the Soviet military. Built in 1960 and protected by thick walls, barbed-wire fences and gun-toting guards, Star City is the training site of every Russian crew to fly into space.
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