The first private manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to go ahead in 2011, a US space tourism company has announced.The mission has been agreed between the company Space Adventures and the Russian federal space agency.
A Soyuz spacecraft will be specially manufactured for this mission.
Space Adventures has so far bought seats on Soyuz missions to the ISS for five clients, with the price of a seat costing upwards of $20m (�10m).
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