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It looks like private space flights are becoming more and more popular ;-)

According to the article in seattletimes.com, there is one toy inventor who is pretty close to performing first private space flight, although it is going to be

Idea of private space flight is becoming more and more popular. Another plan which has good chance to become reality is conversion of Russian Mir station to space hotel, but this just uses existing Russian technology. Plans of Rotary Rockets and Kistler Aerospace seems to be even more ambitious. Very interesting detail about Kistler is the fact, that they plan to use unused rocket engines originaly designed for N-1 - huge ultra-secret rocket developed in 60's for canceled Russian manned moon mission, but this fact is not emphasized enough on Kistler pages.

Oh... have I mentioned, that Arachne Labs plan to send manned mission to Mars sometimes around 2050 ? We just have to rename to Arachne Interplanetar Transportation Labs first ;-) It should be worth the effort, because visual evidence suggests water springs on Mars ...