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Space Adventures, the US company that offers space trips
for the millionaires and billionaires, has confirmed that one of its clients will be Sergey Brin,
the man who has co-founded Google along with his friend Larry Page.
Sergey Brin will fly to the ISS in 2011 and according to the
Russian Space Agency the Google’ President of Technology will fly in a special
designed Soyuz.
A trip in space is estimated at $30 - $40 million and so far
only five people have been in space thanks to Space Adventures.
Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow,
received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer
science from the University of Maryland at College
Park.
He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program
in computer science at Stanford
University, where he
received his master's degree.
It was at Stanford where Sergey Brin met Larry Page and
worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in
1998, and Brin continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with
Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
Last year, Google expressed its interest in space exploration
by announcing the Google Lunar X Prize, which will be awarded to the first
private company that will be able to land a privately funded robotic rover on
the Moon.
The competition is scheduled to come an end on December 31, 2012.
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