Chinese businessman books quick getaway in space
A Chinese man has paid $100,000 (56,306 pounds) for a 90-minute voyage that will make him China's first tourist in space, the China Daily said on Friday.
Jiang Fang, president of a Hong Kong company that acts as the China agent for U.S.-based space tourism firm Space Adventures, would experience zero gravity on one of the company's sub-orbital flights due for launch in 2007, the China Daily said.
That same year, China plans to launch its third manned space flight, which should include the country's first spacewalk.
American millionaire Gregory Olsen returned earlier this month from a one-week stint on the International Space Station arranged by Space Adventures at a price of $20 million.
Space fever is running high in China after safe return of its second manned space mission, the Shenzhou VI, on Monday and could spike again when a television show offering an insider's view of the national space programme hits screens this month...
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