Want to Walk in Space? You Can Do It for Only $35 million

All you need is $35 million and the willingness to risk your life.

A private Virginia firm that already has sent three super-rich men to the international space station for $20 million each announced on Friday it would offer an even rarer adventure -- a stroll outside the space station for an extra $15 million.

Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures, says the company is arranging for the first spacewalking tourist to go into orbit in about a year with the blessing of the Russian space agency.

The trip would involve a launch in a Soyuz capsule, an eight-day stay aboard the international space station and a 90-minute spacewalk in a Russian spacesuit.

An extra month would be added to the six-month cosmonaut training.

The plan still needs the approval of the other 15 partners in the international space station -- including NASA.

But Anderson says Russian space officials are confident they can get the OK.

NASA would not comment on the proposal.

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