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26.04.2012: HALO SPECIAL JUMPS - FLORIDA. Space Travellers considered with their U.S. partners because of the upcoming summer season 2012, where tandem jumps and could still performed in order to combine sun and beach with each other! It didn't took long and after a glance at the map Florida came out! On 1 and 2 August, we perform over Pensacola in northwest Florida Special HALO tandem jumps! You can jump with your experienced HALO tandem master during the sunset from 30.000 feet altitude and watch the sunset from a slightly different perspective. Or, a day later from the same altitude level and you will make your landing directly on the beach where the beach boys and girls where wondering, where the guys coming from! Reservations are accepted up to July 1 2012, hurry up, because the jumps are performed not only in one specific location but also at much lower prices! More ...

23.04.2012: BE YOUR OWN AVIATOR. In 60 days you could be in as a backseater of one of the best fighter jets in the world - a Russian MIG-29UB "Fulcrum"! The MIG-29 has the highest climb rate of fighter jets in the world and you will feel the powerful thrust of the jet engines, if you are heading straight up into the sky behind the clouds! This flight is belonging to the greatest flight adventures what Space Travellers could offer to your side. We are providing since 2002 jet flights around the world, and the MIG-29 belongs to the best flight opportunities inside our programs. The only what you need is: COURAGE! Meanwhile, we equipped the MIG cockpits with GoPro HD cameras, so that your flight will be recorded in HD, more sharp as your own eye could see your flight! Come on board the MIG, be strapped into the backseat, and enjoy the most thrilling ride what a civilian could have during a ride with a fighter jet! More ...

12.04.2012: YURI'S NIGHT. 212 (9 virtual) events in 50 countries on 7 continents. Yuri's Night 2012 (http://www.yurisnight.net) is a worldwide event. Hundred thousands of people are celebrating since 2001 on April 12 each year the first flight of a human to space and honor the Russian hero Yuri A. Gagarin who made on April 12 1961 his first route into space. So, why not to visit this legendary village outside of Moscow called "Star City", where the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center is located? Here, international crews are on mission training for their route to space to the International Space Station ISS. You can visit this legendary place, or - maybe you want to have some adrenaline and train for your own mission? Let us know, maybe you are also investigating a event location for your next corporate "kick off meeting"! More ...

07.04.2012: FIRST ORBIT COMPETITION. SPACE TRAVELLERS and 'The Attic Room' raffle for the DVD & Blue-ray release of Christopher Riley's movie "FIRST ORBIT" 5 DVD with the signature of the director and producer. The movie shows nearby the orbit of Yuri Gagarin's 'first orbit' around Earth on April 12 1961 and was filmed from onboard the International Space Station ISS through the window to the universe, the Cupola. Here you can win ...

28.03.2012: SOYUZ TMA-04M & TMA-05M. The Russian space agency Roskosmos set up the new launches for the upcoming both Soyuz liftoffs for May 15th and July 15th. So, we switched our voyage dates for our Baikonur expedition tours. We have two ones: a longer one (what will include the Gagarin Cosmonaut Traning Center, Moscow and the Flight control center at Koroljov), and a shorter tour what includes the liftoff of Soyuz at Baikonur. If you want to see it in May: please hurry up, booking is still possible up to April 4, 2012! Here you will find your Soyuz Baikonur Liftoff ...

28.03.2012: MAINTENANCE ACCOMPLISHED. 8 weeks we worked very hard to re-edit and re-configure our websites in german and english. Now, it seems that we are ready. Of course, we have to correct here and there something in the next days, so if some mistakes are in, we beg your pardon! But we are glad, we made it!

12.03.2012: MAINTENANCE. In the next upcoming days and max. 2 weeks our english language webpage will have some re-constructions and re-editions. We beg your pardon for problems what will occur sometimes and with possible dis-function of some parts of the website. Our engineers, technicians, program managers and workers are speed up to take the website to a new mission readiness. So sorry for discomfort in the next upcoming days!

17.02.2012: SOYUZ LIFTOFF POSTPONED.The liftoff of the Russian Soyuz Missions Soyuz TMA-04M and Soyuz TMA-05M are postponed between 30 and 45 days. This influences our tour plannings for the Baikonur Expeditions. It seems to be that TMA-04M will not have its liftoff earlier as May 15th 2012 and Soyuz TMA-05M not earlier as July 15th 2012. Stay tuned, we will give informations as soon we will get it.

30.12.2011: SPACE TRAVELLERS wishes its globally scattered team of networkers, partners, promoters, friends, acquaintances, family members and above all our customers in the last 12 years a good lift off into 2012 with lots of love, joy and confidence. Of course added with health. We want to thank all those who accompany us for many years and constantly present new challenges, may they still appear impossible! The year 2012 will be exceptional and we will turn the adventure and aerospace world upside down! We promise!

12.12.2011: H.A.L.O. SPACE TRAVELLERS ADVENTURES.  Jetflights and space adventure, these are the specialties for more than 10 years of Space Travellers. Well we thought of introducing something new. We are glad to acquaint you with our new HALO adventures. HALO means 'High Altitude Low Opening', a type of skydiving, better known as MFF (Military Free Fall). You ask yourself, what does this have to do with space adventures? Well, the commercialization of the HALO is just the first step up to the 'Space Jump'. Of course we also work with international partners at this level, but it will take some years on top from now, until a man can fly to an altitude of 100km, and then just jump out and falling towards Earth! As long as it is to wait, and we take you to altitudes of 30,000 ft, where the sky begins already to be black and the curvature of Earth is to see! If you are hooked only once on your tandem master, the door is open and you stare into the abyss, there's no turning back! A 2 minute free fall will follow, and this will lead you to your limits! Most definitely. SPACE TRAVELLERS has designed with his American partners exclusively for the European market, individual programs, which are themselves also could be used as a new enrichment as incentives, team trainings and coachings! So look forward to the new programs that you can find on our specially designed website at www.halojumpers.com. And remember: always climb high and drop safe!

08.12.2011: SPACE TRAVELLERS SOYUZ TMA-04M LIFTOFF EXPEDITION. Since 2005 SPACE TRAVELLERS offers expedition tours to the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome. Many of our customers were only 1.5 miles away, when the Soyuz rocket with three astronauts in the capsule lift off in a 8-minute journey toward Earth orbit, by nearly two days later to dock with the International Space Station. In March 2012 (end of March tbd) we will conduct a new expedition, you are faced with the Russian space technology! First 3 days in Star City on the trail of Yuri Gagarin, then with one of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center planes towards Baikonur. There you will see in 4 days most of that what the cosmodrom has to offer! The Cottages of Sergei Korolev, the Russian space shuttle 'Buran', Energia launch pad and you will accompany the cosmonauts at the various press conferences. You accompany the Soyuz rocket on the way to Gagarinsky launchpad to see the missile being erected there, to watch from a VIP viewpoint the launch preparations before launch. After liftoof, you fly back to Moscow for to see two days later the docking of 'your' mission in the Russian flight control center at Korolyov live with the International Space Station. SPACE TRAVELLERS has two programs to choose from: a long program as described above, as well as a 5-day short program, which will lead only to Baikonur! Thus, you can choose yourself on which expedition you would want to participate. Experience factor is guaranteed for both! Here you will find your Soyuz Baikonur Liftoff ...

26.11.2011: MIG-29 'Fulcrum' AEROSPACE ADVENTURES. If you have always dreamed of it once, to move with supersonic, then the Russian MIG-29 'Fulcrum' is the climax of jetflights! Since 2006, SPACE TRAVELLERS uses flying opportunities on the Russian airbase of SOKOL in Niszhny Novgorod. Also in 2012 we will continue the flights, with a few special highlights that you can only get from us. You will be well prepared for the different flight opportunities with the MIG-29 in the skies over Nizhny Novgorod. Whether you want to have aerobatic maneuvers during the flight or you want to use the machine appeals to fly high as possible into the stratosphere: after the adventure, customers are speechless and want to try the same again! Click here for the MIG-29 ...

18.11.2011: Zero G Flight Campaign 2012. Since 2002, SPACE TRAVELLERS 'kidnapped' customers in zero gravity. This also in 2012. We have scheduled several flights with the Russian Ilyushin 76 MDK distributed throughout the year 2012, for which we want to make our long-proven specially developed program. So if you want to take this opportunity to finally lose even the ground beneath your feet, then come with us to Star City, to experience the hospitality of Russia and other attractions such as the Monino Air Force Museum, which is one of the best museums of aviation and aeronautics in the world. Surely you will also learn some historical facts about the first man in space, to today's aerospace, and you will get an insight into the training programs what the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center conducts for all the regular teams of the International Space Station. However, the highlight of the trip will be the parables, you can experience weightlessness in free fall. The instructors train the astronauts and cosmonauts normally, but what you can experience all in weightlessness, we do not want to tell now, of course not! To weightlessness ...

16.11.2011: SPACE TRAVELERS LANDING EXPEDITION "SOYUZ TMA-04M". SPACE TRAVELLERS developed from 2005 to 2008, together with Russian partners a very special program: a expedition to the landing of the Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan. In April 2009 we started with 12 people on it as part of a corporate event to attend during the landing of Soyuz TMA-13. First, in Star City, the group was made familiar with the Russian space history, we walked in the footsteps of Yuri A. Gagarin. Then to Astana, the capitol city of Kazakhstan. Further to Karaganda to the south. Here, the waiting began on the date when the group would leave the hotel by jeep to drive several hundred kilometers far at night with jeeps. 6 hours later in the middle of nowhere, the SPACE TRAVELERS GROUP met the rescue unit of Roskosmos, the Russian Space Agency. Several hours later a loud bang in the clear blue skies over Kazakhstan: the landing of Soyuz TMA-13 capsule. The capsule opened the last giant parachute and floated towards in direction to its landing point. This is a remarkable journey, can't described with words if you would not even there. Space Travellers will conduct again in 2012 expeditions to the Soyuz landing, aiming for the first time, the landing of Soyuz TMA-04M in June 2012. Whether you are in the process, you can decide by early May 2012. Also there is a landing earlier in March, but this is something for die-hards, because the weather conditions can be somewhat barbaric! To the SPACE TRAVELLERS Soyuz landing expedition ...

17.09.2011: SOYOUZ TMA-22 LIFTOFF: Out of a mailfunktion of a Soyuz rocket in August, the flight schedule of the manned flights to the International Space Station has changed. Now our SPACE TRAVELLERS SOYUZ TMA-22 LIFTOFF MISSION will be starting on November 9th up to November 17th, 2011. We have to programs, a longer one and a shorter one. Both programs are unique and will show you the Russian and international spaceflight with the liftoff of the only at the moment available spaceship to the International Space Station ISS. The booking for both adventures are still possible up to October 8th, 2011. Do not miss the opportunity to be with us in Kazakhstan! Baikonur is a very special place to visit the historical places, where Yuri Gagarin made his first flight to space in 1961! More ...

28.07.2011: MIG29 'FULCRUM' ADVENTURES. You are dreaming of a flight through the sound barrier? You want to experience a special class flight, high as you can go? Then, our SPACE TRAVELLERS SUMMER EXTRA is just right for you! Up to August 31st 2011 special prices applies to all those who are really interested to fly in this year and take a jet ride with the world famous Russian MIG-29! Nowhere else on the world you can fly this kind of jet, and nowhere else you can fly like in Russia! Adrenaline pushes with the most safety guarantees! SPACE TRAVELLERS is performing the flights with the MIG-29 'Fulcrum' since 2006, and we were with some programs first in providing, as with the "Edge of Space Flights" possibilities with the MIG-29! About the price we want to reveal anything here yet, so please do not hesitate to contact us and talk with us to arrange your own special flight adventure! More ...

25.07.2011: NEW! SPACE TRAVELLERS HALO TANDEM JUMP EXCLUSIVELY. We are pleased with our U.S. special partners for Europe to introduce an exclusive program: HALO parachute jumps! HALO stands for High Altitude - Low Opening! These parachute jumps from high altitudes include a very long free-flight phase. Your plane will take you in Memphis/Tennessee/USA at an altitude of at least 8534 m (28,000ft). A day before you have learned in a special training with the HALO-specialists in Memphis all the basics that put you in the situation, to jump hooked at your highly experienced jump master out of the plane. Normally on these altitudes airliners are flying here, but this may not affect you at your jump day! You will rush min. 2 min hanging on your jump master towards the ground before the parachute is pulled. Another jumper takes from your jump a HiDef video. High-resolution images also of your jump! A unique adventure which have not made yet by many civilians! These programs are arranged exclusively from SPACE TRAVELLERS for European customers. And they are also particularly suitable for incentives and team training. You want to know more? Click here to fall down ...

08.07.2011: SOYUZ TMA-21 LANDING EXPEDITION. The landing schedule of the Soyuz Mission TMA-21 was changed. The landing is now planned for September 8th, 2011. Our expedition tour begins now on September 5th, 2011. More informations ...

04.07.2011: TO THE EDGE OF SPACE - SPACE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE: Since 2002 we are performing 'Edge of Space Flights" with fighter jets. To take our customers high as possible. We flown the MIG-25, the MIG-31 and the Electric Lightning. The only place, where you can do that nowadays is Russia! There, you can fly together with a very experienced test pilot to the 'Edge of Space'. Space is in real at 330,000ft (100km) altitude (at the so called 'Karman Line') US-Airforce decleared the altitude of space with 262,467ft (80km). However, today the only possibility is to fly as high as possible, our MIG-29UB 'Fulcrum'. We are now celebrating the 100th 'Edge of Space Flight'! That means, SPACE TRAVELLERS sent since 2002 100 people to the 'Edge of Space'. We were first on the world, who performed in 2008 with a lady a 'Edge of Space Flight' with the MIG-29. So, we are celebrating this with a special flight rate! If you want to know the conditions and the rates, do not hesitate to contact us. Our Mission Director, by himself a very experiences space- & jetflight trainee will explain you all the things and will give you all the answers what you need, to do this by yourself. We can guarantee you: This flight you will never forget in your lifetime! Your adventure will start here! More ...

01.06.2011: SOYUZ TMA-21 RETURN. On April 4 2011, Soyuz TMA-21 rises up in the heaven of the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhztan. This flight was named "Gagarin" to honor the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight. SPACE TRAVELLERS was in 2009 the first aerospace operator, who made it possible to bring people to the landing site of the Soyuz spacecraft, when it comes back to land in the wilderness of Kazakhstan. We attend the landing of the (until now) last space tourist Charles Simonyi, who made his second spaceflight as a "spaceflight participant". Our Soyuz LiftOff tours to the cosmodrome Baikonur are very popular since 2005, but this landing tour is very special, because this is comparable with a unique adventure tour, what combines the caracteristics of human spaceflight with a very unique tour to into the "middle of nowhere". Depending on, where the landing will be estimated, we drive more of 400km with 4-wheel-cars to attend the rescue team for the landing operations, or we fly directly with MI-8 helicopters to the landing site. With the Soyuz TMA-21 landing on September 16 2011 (tbd) you will take apart at one of the most unique adventures in human spaceflight, the "Return of Soyuz". More ...

31.05.2011: STS 135 "ATLANTIS". Just one more chance you have to experience a space shuttle launch live. On July 8 2011, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis with the Mission STS-135 will head from Florida to space, to dock two days later at the International Space Station. After this start, it will never be another space shuttle launch! SPACE TRAVELLERS has put together a special tour to bring you closer to the Space Shuttle program with getting in touch to the history of the US space program. You must hurry up, because the deadline for to participate on this touris June 5, 2011 More ...

20.04.2011: SPRING AWAKENING. The easter weekend is short infront of the door. The weather conditions now in Germany starting to be very good. We hope, that you will find time to have a nice time with your family and friends on easter. Maybe, you will also have the time to think about, how to steel your mentalizm and physis for your working routine? Our Jet-Pilot training is unique! It will help to sharp your senses. So, try to think about a very special training, what will help you to deal with your workflow! For a short time, SPACE TRAVELLERS is offering this Jet-Pilot training for only 2.850,00 Euro. Nowhere you will have the same high quality program! More ...

17.04.2011: YURI'S NIGHT & SPACE TRAVELLERS. The contests of "YURI'S NIGHT" 50th anniversary, what SPACE TRAVELLERS sponsored as big prices, ended on April 15th 2011. Up to April 22th 2011 you can vote on the YURI'S NIGHT FACEBOOK WEBSITE for your best picture. The winners will be announced live on April 28th 2011 during the live vidcast of SPACEVIDCAST (www.spacevidcast.com)  during the launch of STS-134 'Endeavour'. Maybe also, you are beloning to the lucky winners?

12.04.2011: YURI GAGARIN. Today, exactly 50 years ago, Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human to flew to space and thus make an age-old dream come true. Midst of the Cold War, and at first unnoticed by the world, Yuri Gagarin flew into space, orbited Earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes before he landed. Only after he had landed safely, the Soviet Union spread the message of this adventure, which then spread like wildfire around the world. A man has penetrated for the first time ever space! Yuri's flight was a milestone in the history of mankind. SPACE TRAVELLERS and YURIS' NIGHT INTERNATIONAL offers you the opportunity, to walk in the footsteps of Yuri Gagarin or even to be weightless. You can participate up to April 15 on our cooperation contest, what you can reach directly on the YURIS' NIGHT WEBSITE.

 

FIRST ORBIT is the title of the film of the British filmmaker Christopher Riley. In FIRST ORBIT, the film shows almost the first flight path of Yuri Gagarin's spaceship "Vostok 1" around Earth, so the "First Orbit", and you can fly with us. SPACE TRAVELLERS presents the movie on our website. More ...

11.04.2011: JET-PILOT TRAINING IN GERMANY. SPACE TRAVELLERS is since June 2007 the first provider of jet pilot trainings in Germany, when we start to work with a  L-39ZO  "Albatross"  jetfighter. We noticed from the beginning to the legal rules that apply to this type of training. Many customers enjoy since then the opportunity to complete a special training, and after this training the free-flight, too. Because if you were able to conclude the training successfully before. Again, our quality speaks for itself. Spring is coming with big steps now, and we would like to make you more familiar with our program, which will introduce you to a day in the mysteries of jet flight. The price of this adventure (Jetpilottraining including the possibility of free flight), including 2 video cameras that film your free flight (30min) and the 4-hour training program itself, is 3.250, - €. The program is also ideal for corporate incentives and team trainings. Please contact us if you need more informations. More ...

07.04.2011: STS-134 ENDEAVOUR. There are only two space shuttle tours in this year left. NASA postponed now the liftoff date for STS-134 Endeavour to 29.04.2011 because of scheduling of a Russian Progress Cargo ship, what will have it's liftoff on 27.04.2011. The STS-134 tour is overbooked, but there is still open one option, STS-135 Atlantis in June 2011. We have to see, if the launch date will not be changed, but you will have still the opportunity to see the last space shuttle liftoff finally. It is always very hard, to fix this tours because of the rescheduling of the liftoffs of the shuttle. But most of our customers want to participate on exactly this tour, because its unique. More ...

06.04.2011: SOYUZ TMA-02M. The next Soyuz Liftoff tour of Soyuz TMA-02M was planned around 30.05.2011. The Russian space agency announced, that now this takeoff will be postponed to a date, what will be between 07.06. and 10.06.2011. So, we have to change our planned tour to Russian and Baikonur a little bit, and we will let you know, when the final liftoff date will be announced. More ...

15.03.2011: YURI'S NIGHT 2011. Interested in taking a Zero-G flight in the homeland of Yuri Gagarin, or seeing a rocket launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome? Today, we’re announcing two contests that will give Yuri’s Night fans and space devotees around the world a once-in-a-lifetime chance at these experiences: the “Call to Humanity ” Space Exploration Ad Competition, which calls on talented graphic designers, artists, and other creative individuals to create a powerful and inspiring print campaign that will move people to think about and support humanity’s future in space, and the “International Space Sweepstakes”, a free global drawing. More ...

27.02.2011: BAIKONUR. Unfortunately it is not possible to have access to Baikonur at the planned Soyuz liftoff on March 2011, honored to Yuri A. Gagarin. The Russian state and the Russian space agency Roskosmos invited special guests from around the world to be a witness for this event, and so they increased the security level for Baikonur in this time. But, don't worry to much: in 2011 will be 3 more additional liftoff's of Soyuz which you can attend. We have also 2 different tours, our longyear tour "VIP in Star City and LiftOff in Baikonur" (9 days with a lot of special highlights), and a shorter tour for 5 days, for people who want to go only to Baikonur. So, we have in this year more possibilities to keep you in touch with this special place on planet Earth. It will be a special visit, anyway, in the year in which it is 50 years ago, since Yuri A. Gagarin made the first human step to space! More ...

14.01.2011: SPACE SHUTTLE FAREWELL TOUR STS-134 'ENDEAVOUR'. Out of the postponings and delays of STS-133 'Discovery', now targeted for liftoff not earlier as February 24 2011, also STS-134 'Endeavour has received a new launch date, not earlier as April 19th 2011. Out of this, our Farewell-Tour has a changed date. We scrubbed all booked flights for the former planned flight and retarget them now, that our tour will start on April 16 and will run to April 25 2011. This is the last shuttle flight (there is one in addition at some months in consideration, but not fixed yet) what will occur. So, join the group and see the fantastic worlds of human spaceflight at the East coast of the United States! More ...

13.01.2011: 50th ANNIVERSARY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT - PART 2. Our V.I.P. Tour to Russian Star City, flying to Baikonur to stay there during the preparations of the Soyuz liftoff and afterwards visiting the Mission Control Center in Koroljov is unique! For smaller budgets, without losing of safety and quality, we have also compiled a short trip to Baikonur only, what is suitable both for individuals and for bigger groups! Right now, the special launch what is dedicated to Yuri Gagarin is targeted for March 30. This liftoff is a very special event, a lot of celebrities are invited from the Russian Space Agency Roskosmos for the launch of Soyuz TMA-21. You will see many amazing and fascinating things during your trip. And these 5 days in the Kazakh steppe will be never forgotten! More ...

13.01.2011: SPACE SHUTTLE FAREWELL TOUR 'DISCOVERY' STS-133. 'Safety first' is the motto, and we can understand completely that the NASA engineers are have to do a very good job and to do their best for making the Space Shuttle Launch STS-133 'Discovery' as safe as possible. Now NASA announced, that the liftoff will not take place earlier as February 24, 2011. But, this date is also not of hundred percent, because other transports of cargo ships occuring in this time to deliver goods to the ISS. We can not yet say if it comes to this liftoff or there will be further shifts. Certainly, the tour what we have developed is unique beside the shuttle launch. With the launch, of course, a little bit more special. We asked many participants if it might be a good idea to make the tour weither the liftoff of the shuttle will occur or not. Let us know your thoughts! More ...

12.01.2011: 50th ANNIVERSARY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT. SPACE TRAVELLERS is providing since 2005 very special tours to the cosmodrome Baikonur in the Kazakh steppe. Also, in this year will be some lift off's, but the Soyuz flight in March of the mission 'Soyuz TMA-21' will be a very special flight, which honors the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space. Soyuz will rise up in the sky of Kazakhstan again. You will take part at all of the launch preparations, what will begin if the Soyuz integration hall will opens early in the morning the doors, and the Soyuz will carry out on a train to the launchpad. You will follow the train to the pad. Before, you visited world legendary Star City and you saw the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. You will be ready to watch the liftoff of the Soyuz rocket only 1.5km away from the pad, nowhere else on the world you will have such an opportuntiy to come closer. You will be a part of the history, when the Astronauts and Cosmonauts will head into direction to met spacestation ISS two days later, and you will follow on in the flight control centre of Koroljov the docking procedure. But everywhere, you will feel the presence of Yuri Gagarin and Sergey Koroljov. Both man made it first possible; the encounter of mankind with space. More ...

01.01.2011: THE NEW YEAR 2011 ARRIVED. SPACE TRAVELLERS is wishing all our customers, friends, acquaintances, partners and families a happy new year 2011 with good health, happiness and confidence. The new year 2011 will give you a lot of surprises, it will be a year full of adventure, events and experiences that has not existed before. Many new things have come to the time in, however, "Psssst!". We will then announce it when the time is right to do so. In any case, it will be exciting and unique! In the coming days and weeks there will be something new to discover, and as you expect from us, we will let you know. Join our newsletter simply, and you will hear it immediately!