Constellation Services International
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Constellation Services International (CSI) is a company operating in the space tourism
Space tourism
Space Tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry...

 sector. It intends to utilise existing Russia
Russia
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n Soyuz spacecraft
Soyuz spacecraft
Soyuz , Union) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today...

 to send paying customers to the Moon
Moon
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. Customers will spend a week aboard the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...

 before flying to the Moon, where they will spend a further week in orbit. They originally expected to be operating by 2008, according to their best case scenario.

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