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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
about a seminar on the Future of Space Tourism
to be held in the framework of the 13th Economic Forum

June 19, 2003. Korolev, Moscow Area
S.P.Korolev RSC Energia is an official partner of the 12th Economic
Forum to be held on September 4-6 in Poland. The Forum, which
provides a framework within which RSC Energia coordinates the
preparations for and the holding of a seminar on The Future of Space
Tourism, is organized by the Institute for East European Studies
(Warsaw, Poland). The objective of the Economic Forum is to expand
political and economic cooperation between European countries, to
establish relations of partnership in business and culture.

It is not by chance that the subject of space tourism was selected
for discussion in one of the seminars - the number of people
interested in private space flight steadily grows. The successful
missions of the first tourists - D.Tito and M.Shuttleworth - provide
an inspiration for many others to realize in practice their interest
in space research. Commercial space flight is no longer an exception
from the rules, and is considered as an independent line of
commercial activities in space. 

The participants' papers will be dedicated to different aspects of
space tourism ranging from the history of the development of this
line of space flight to the investment attractiveness of space
tourism projects. 

The setting-up of the seminar is coordinated by pilot-cosmonaut, the
head of RSC Energia Flight Test Division Alexander Alexandrov. The
seminar will be hosted by the Head of the RSC Energia International
Division, Candidate of Engineering Science Alexander Derechin.

A more detailed information about the 13th Economic Forum and the
Future of Space Tourism seminar can be found on the forum's web site
at www.forum-ekonomiczne.pl.

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