Space Adventures, a private company that has sent well-heeled tourists into space, announced Monday that it is partnering with a Singapore-based consortium to build a space station in the small island nation. The commercial spaceport will offer suborbital spaceflights, as well as operate astronaut training facilities and an educational visiting center for the public.
Space Adventures announced in May that it agreed to buy Space Launch, a small jet engineering company, in a move to develop proprietary commercial rockets in the United States. Under the deal, the company will maintain Space Launch as a wholly owned subsidiary in order to develop aerospace technologies for a future tourist program for travel in suborbital space in the United States.
Space Adventures' past tourist trips to the International Space Station have largely been possible through the Russian Space Agency and a contract with the Myasishchev Design Bureau, a private Russian engineer of space vehicles.
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