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25.05.2010: SPACE SHUTTLE FAREWELL TOUR 2010! In 2010, are now (date of May 2010) up only two Space Shuttle launches. You can be there when STS-133 in September or STS-134 in November will rise majestically into space in order to complete the last flights. SPACE TRAVELLERS has compiled a unique journey what brings you closer to the past, the present and the future of U.S. and international spaceflight and the human exploration of space. So, if you ever want to have a experieence of a space shuttle launch live, then you have not many opportunities to do so! Contact us today, for the last places these tours are popular! More ...

20.05.2010: WILD WEASEL. For 10 years we fly jets. For 10 years we inspire people who are looking for extreme experiences. We flew MIG-21, MIG-25, MIG-31. We fly Jet Provost, L-39 "Albatross", BAE Electric Lightning MIG-29 and F-104 at various locations around the world. Time for something new! More ...

08.05.2010: GO TO THE EDGE OF SPACE! As a unique adventure til the date when the first sub-orbital spaceships will take you on private wings up to an altitude more as 100km (320K feet), we offer since years for now jet flights into the stratosphere! The only way currently to get high as possible is the Russian MIG-29UB, which allows you to reach absolutely high altitudes. The flights will be held from the russian airbase of SOKOL in Niszhny Novgorod. Altitudes between 21 to 24 kilometers are possible. One thing is very unique: You and your very experienced pilot (all of our pilots are special test-pilots with thousands of hours flight experience on different kind on fighter jets) will be at this day of your flight the highest flying people of the world! Only higher is the International Space Station ISS with its crew onboard! A unique experience what will deep burned in your mind! Take your MIG-29 Edge of Space Flight ...

25.04.2010: Airborne: Barbara Burtscher (25) from Switzerland, an astrophysicist, is starting with SPACE TRAVELLERS her first steps into space. She will perform on 25. April in Memphis, United States, her first training for to reach the stars. She will jump out of a plane at 30,000ft in a tandem with a special experienced jump master and will feel 2 minutes of free falling down to Earth! A HALO-Jump is nothing for people who have fear of flying! To Barbara's HALO-Jump

31.03.2010: "Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!" (Yuri A. Gagarin). This words said by the first human adventurer in space, Yuri A. Gagarin - a russian Test Pilot, unearth a new evidence: Humans can fly into space and can land safely on Earth! This spaceflight took place nearby 50 years ago, as Yuri A. Gagarin made his lift off onboard his spaceship "Vostok 1" from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Since 2001 the "Yuri's night" will celebrate the brave russian cosmonaut on April 12th to honor his markable step of mankind into space with parties around the world, from Hawaii to New Zealand. Also in this year, around April 12th this party will take place. Watch out and you will find a place where you can join the party and the celebration of Yuri's flight! To Yuri's Night International ...

12.02.2010: New dates for our parabolic flights in USA. You would feel like the astronauts, free floating in weightlessness? Then you have the chance to feel this with SPACE TRAVELLERS. We want to suggest for the flights the possibilities at Cape Canaveral. There you will have the take off to your weightlessness experience from the world famous Shuttle Runway Facility! Because, nearby you will find history of over 50 years of spaceflight at the Kennedy Space Center! Take a ride ...

03.01.2010: SPACE TRAVELLERS wish all customers, friends and interesting parties a Happy New Year 2010! This decade promises to be very exiting, it will be the decade of the suborbital space tourism!. SPACE TRAVELLERS is ready to commit. Fly with the Rocketplane or the Lynx to the highest possible altitude to see our homeplanet Earth with other eyes! And we can promise: A new and unique program will be soon received ONLY by SPACE TRAVELLERS. So, stay tuned about the next few weeks!

News 2009

30.12.2009: NEW! SUBORBITAL SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING STARFIGHTER! Finally it's done: After months of preparation and program development SPACE TRAVELLERS can offer to you now a program that are heralding the era of the sub-orbital space flights: Are you ready to test whether you can transgress into suborbital altitudes and know all about all the things for you are coming? SPACE TRAVELERS has now for Europe exclusively the "Suborbital Space Training Starfighter F-104G. 3 days long, you will be at the Kennedy Space Center Flight line in Florida/USA, and with the help of the most experienced Starfighter flight instructors, you will be brought trough a special training program. And it will end in a unique flight with the 'F-104G Starfighter', the 'Astronaut Maker'!. The program is developed under special guidelines with NASA and will take you to a suborbital preparation training, what will familiarize you with the phases of flight and flight maneuvers, which you will have during a flight with the suborbital RLV's in coming years. Try it out now even if you have the 'Right Stuff' to be able to fly one day, actually to the stars! Ready? Then take a look at our program and do not hesitate for a second! To Suborbital Space Flight Training 'Starfighter F-104G' ...

27.12.2009: Visit our new YouTube Video Log on our webside. Here, we are presenting our best adventures what we made in the last nearby 10 years of our space- and flight tourism experience. Enjoy the adventures. Watch the videos ...

24.12.2009: Our team wishes all the best for Christmas and a quite and nice time between the years. We will be reachable between the years and also we will show to you at the end of the year a very unique program, what you can book exclusively in Europe at our side!

22.12.2009: Visit the Cosmodrome Baikonur! When a group of international Astronauts and Cosmonauts will leave this planet to fly to space, this is one of the greatest adventures of mankind! You can take part on this adventures on our 7 or 10 days long journey, what will start in Star City nearby Moscow with following the footsteps of Juri A. Gagarin. Then, you will fly to the Cosmodrome Baikonur and you will follow 4 days there the preperations for the liftoff to the Stars! You will be directly in touch with the liftoff preperations as the international press conferences with the crew, the rollout and the erection of the Soyuz rocket on the launch pad, and finally the liftoff itself! The journey what SPACE TRAVELLERS offers now since years is one of the best experience, what you can have if you are space and earth interested. This voyage will touch your soul! Your Soyuz TMA-19 experience will start here!

24.11.2009: A new adventure, a new thrill: SPACE TRAVELLERS is proud to announce a unique program: a spaceflight pre-qualification training for suborbital space-rides. SPACE TRAVELLERS is the only company in Europe who will offer this fantastic program to people, who are thinking to have a ride to space in the future. The 4-day program will be conducted at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida/USA and will be held under guidelines and rules of the American FAA and NASA. You will have a insight look to special procedures and after the program you will be qualified to take a ride to space. The highlight of the training is a ride with the Lockheed F-104 'Starfighter'! The program will be online in the next days. But, if you can't wait on it you can send a request to starfighters[at]space-travellers.com, and we will give you a first insight to the program!

10.11.2009: Short before our 10th anniversary of our adventures, we worked hard with our partners around the globe to find new prices for our jetflight adventures! We can say, we have had success! Before this day a Edge of Space Flight with the MIG-29 costs 23.000 Euro. Now 17.200 Euro (included the complete program)! If you do not want to go so fast and so high, also good news: The both flight opportunities in USA and Germany with our favourite L-39 Albatross programs are having now both cost of 3.150 Euro. Some other programs will also be new calculated, and we will see, if we can achieve our goals!

22.10.2009: The blackness of space is familiar to the most only from the earthly realms, if one is outside and looks toward the sky. Depending on the weather you can see, however, especially in winter, a sparkeling stars and planets and the deep darkness in sky at night. If you want risk a glance, beside all weather conditions, Space Travellers gives you the opportunity to travel into space. The Rocketplane XP will take you to an altitude of 330,000 feet. The official boundary of the earth to space is at 300,000 feet, so you will exceed one of the first commercial adventure the boundary to space. Then, seeing not only the blackness of space, you look back on our blue planet Earth, which appears under you in its stunning beauty. To the Rocketplane XP Suborbital Program ...

12.10.2009: Janne from Norway has dreamed about to fly a jet. We made this possible for her, and after the event she can't find words. Her husband Meindert wrote us a report from a somewhat different perspective. Read the eyewitness report!

25.09.2009: The Lift Off of the Soyuz TMA-17 mission was forseen for November 2009. Now, there is a new schedule and the Russian Space Agency postponed the Lift Off to December 23rd. That means: Christmas in Baikonur and the time after in Moscow. If you want to have a Christmas special, so do not hesitate to contact us. You will have a journey of your life with a special touch to human spaceflight! The Soyuz TMA-17 special experience ...

19.07.2009: On July 20th 1969, the American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong set his first footprint at 10:56 and 15 seconds (pm, Eastern Standard Time) after the succesful landing of the lunar module "Eagle" on the powder like surface of the Moon, and said the famous words: "Its a small step for a man, but a giant leap for mankind!". So, with this step, John F. Kennedy's announcement to land a man on the moon within this decade, was coming to reality. The second man on the moon, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin" followed at 11:16 pm (EST). The first lunar excursion lasted 2.5 hours, and after the successful mission the splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occured on July 24, 12:50pm (EST). Also now, the second announcement of John F. Kennedy, to bring the men after the landing safely back to Earth, was accomplished. Space Travellers honors now Apollo 11 with a special about this milestone. You can see the best pictures and mission descriptions of the flight path and a special Anniversary Video. Space Travellers also offers special adventures in United States. 40 years after the milestone in the history of the Apollo 11 mission you can have special experiences to feel like the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Special ...

19.06.2009: The last weeks we worked hard and tirelessly. We were in the truest sense of the word overtaken by ourselves: MIG-Jetflights in Russia, Dogfight events in the U.S., journalists mission for Calcium Sandoz for science and research. Many new impressions we could leave to our customers memory. You will see a lot of new pictures in our gallery, and there will be coming more in the next weeks and months. Go to gallery ...

01.05.2009: It has been long known that the MIG-31 "Foxhound", with wich we provide normally since 2006 our "Edge of Space" flights, is currently not available at Sokol in Niszhny Novgorod/Russia It is planned that the MIG-31 at Sokol will return in this year, but at the moment we can't say nothing about a time schedule. But we can say that we have performed in the past few months with the MIG-29 "Edge of Space Flights" up to an altitude of 72.400ft (22km). The advantages of the MIG-29 compared to the MIG-31: You sit in a large cockpit, have a better view on all sides, and - the MIG-29 program is much cheaper than the MIG-31. Please contact us for the details, we would be happy to speak with you about this unique flying experience! To your MIG-29 program ...

18.04.2009: The German newspaper "Die Welt" brought today on the first side of its publishing a header-story about our tour to the Landing site of the Soyuz-TMA13 spacecraft on April 8th, 2009. Here you can read the article online from the journalist Dennis Buchmann, who attended this voyage for our customer Sandoz. The article is named "Eine Landung mit der Soyuz ist nichts für Weicheier" (A landing with the Soyuz is nothing for softies - only in German language).

17.04.2009: The first article about our trip to the landing side of Soyuz TMA-13 was published today in the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". The article "Der Tag, an dem die Kugel aus dem fiel" (The day, as the sphere was falling from space) you can find here! (only in German language).

11.04.2009: We are one of the main sponsors for the "Yuris night" at Stuttgart, Germany - for 3 years for now. This year the day was a little bit earlier out of Easter. Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, as he lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 12th, 1961. Since some years, at the "Yuris night", a lot of people celebrating this nigth of the flight of Yuri. Space Travellers gave a special price for the party in Stuttgart: a winner will be attain in next year our special "Space Shuttle farewell tour" in May 2010, when the Space Shuttle will have its last flight to the stars. More informations about this voyage are coming soon.

08.04.2009: Worldpremiere: Kazakhstan, near Jezgesgam. Inside the steppe. 13:16 hour. Mission accomplished! The Soyuz TMA-13 landed with the space travelers Yuri Lonchakov, Mike Fincke and Charles Simonyi. And we are standing by as the Soyuz capsule appeared in an altitude of 35.000 feet above our head with two sonic booms. As the main parachute deployed, a hunt began: we rushed with offroad cars behind the Soyuz capsule to meet her at the landing point. If humans are starting to space, its marvellous. If they are coming back - its astonishing! We developed for our customer Sandoz a very special journalist tour in the heart of the Russian space history and opened the journalists the doors wide open at Russia and Kasachztan. In the next days you will find more here.

03.04.2009:A group of 10 journalist will be guided to Moscow/Star City and to Kazakhztan from April 3 up to April 10. We have organized this tour to watch the landing of the Soyuz TMA-13 mission on April 8th in the steppe of Kazakhztan. Our complete team will be absent out of this reason up to April 10. Please have the understanding that in this time e-mails and calls can't be answered. On April 14 we are back in service. Thanks a lot for your attention.

27.03.2009: Our Zero-G flights in the U.S. on board the Boeing B272 have availible new dates. There are several cities, where the Boeing will perform its Zero-G flights. Take attention: the price for a participation of such a flight is given by the operator (participation in the Zero-G flight with a special program). The price is (as of the exchange rate of Euro = USD for today) 3.820,00 Euro (incl. 5% tax). There are some sellers on the internet, who are selling you the participation absolutely overpriced. We suggested, that you request the current price on daily details. More ...

22.03.2009: We are working on, to present you inside of this year a new jet-flight opportunity: a flight with the successor-model of the MIG-29, the MIG-35! The flight will be a breathtaking adventure, because not only out of the kind of this unique jet, also out of the place, where it will be! We do not give you at the moment any more details, because we would like to increase the tenision! But - you can be sure: as in the past - we are don't build up dream bubbles, we are talking about realities!

28.02.2009: The Lynx arrived! From the renowned American manufacturers XCOR, the two seater Lynx represents new, especially safe techniques employed for the departure into space: Like a standard aircarft, it takes off and lands horizontally, and during the flight its rocket fuel propulsion can be activated and deactivated as required. The cockpit offers a comfortable space, and is specially designed to provide to the passenger optimum panoramic views. You will reach an altitude of 200.000 ft (61km) and you will have the adventure of your life! More ...

19.02.2009: Come with us in June 2009 to a legendary peak, over which you will have the chance to parachute. An aircraft will fly you directly over the summit of Mount McKinley. You will be one of the first jumpers in the world to conquer from the air, the heighest mountain in North America. The jump will be executed from a height of between 7,200-7,400m (23,622 - 24,278ft), wearing an oxygen mask and employing the same apparatus as your NATO trained specialist. Nowhere in the world will you find such a highly qualified skydiving team to accompany you on your challenging adventure! The instructors are the only ones certified from the FAA who are allowed to carry out high altitude parachute jumps, sometimes even from heights of over 10,000m (32,808ft)! More ...

20.01.2009: We are looking forward to present you in the next days an experience of a special kind: as the first Space Tourism Agency in Europe, Space Travellers will offer you lifetime adventure! The term "Edge of Space" will assigned by a different meaning! You can fly with the beginning of mid 2011 on a unique way with the rocket-powered "Lynx" to an altitude of 200,000 feet (~ 61 km)!. Enjoy, directly beside one of the most experienced NASA space shuttle commanders on the co-pilots seat a flight to the frontiers of space! From New Mexico your flight will begin. The "Lynx" is a revolutionary vehicle which uses non-toxic rocket fuel, kerosene and liquid oxygen. The "Lynx" offers a unique approach to security of the plane and the crew, and protect them on such a special way. The program includes a 5-day preflight qualification test incl. stay in the "Canyon State" Arizona/USA in a 5 star country resort, you will feel medical care from flight surgeons and specialists of the world famous Mayo-Clinic, and a cancellation insurance, what will protect your investment for the flight to the stars for 7 years! A little bit patience more, and you will be astonished and amazed!

05.01.2009: The new year 2009 arrived! As a special for the beginning of the new year, Space Travellers present here three extraordinary adventures. With this adventures, you can experience the full speed of a jet in the heaven, in an altitude of 2 meters above the surface of the Mojawe desert, or you can lose earth's gravity. This can be the topic of your new year! More ...

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