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August 15, 2006
A Russian woman has taken weather forecasters in the central town of Uljanovsk to court for making wrong weather prediction which allegedly ruined her holiday camping trip. Alyona Gabitova has filed her suit before the courts and said weather forecaster predicted a sunny weather during her weekend camping trip and that temperature would hover around 82. 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
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July 31, 2006
According to an AP report, author and motivational speaker, Cindy Cashman and her airline pilot fiancé want to get married in space. Cashman has received backing from the Rocketplane Kistler company based in Oklahoma. This company hopes to offer commercial space flights to the public within a couple of years.
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July 23, 2006
A Virginia based travel agency is offering a $15 million space walk outside the Russian segments of the orbiting international space station. Space Adventures Ltd. , the company which first arranged for the first space trip for a tourist, made the offer on Friday. The agency said the walk will include an observation of the orbit of the Earth. The fee is in addition to the $20 million Space Adventures would charge for a 10-day round trip to the space trip.
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July 22, 2006
Russia's parliament is on the way to approving a law that would fine goverment officials for saying "dollar" instead of "rouble" when referring to the country's currency. The impending law caused Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to call the money, "That thing you're not allowed to say. "
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July 17, 2006
Topics space, tickets, flights, virgin, reuters, budget, victoria, launch, design, owned, summer, private, russian, star, web and family
Tickets for the world's first tourist space flight planned for 2008 have been snapped up by celebrities and royalty. The commercial spaceline said that tickets were sold to its first 150 passengers at $200,000 per ticket. Some of the takers were former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck, and a unidentified senior member of a royal family have all bought tickets for the world's first tourist space flights planned for 2008. Meanwhile, Bryan Singer, the director of "Superman Returns," has also signed up.
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