Your adventure:
Mission Day 1:
After your flight from Germany to Moscow you arrive in the afternoon on the airport Sheremetjevo 2 in Moscow, and our local travel guides welcome you there. Subsequently, they takes you with the bus in approximately one hour to Star City, the Russian Centre of manned Space Flight.
After you check in at the Star City Prophilaktorium, it goes to the medical preliminary investigation for the Zero G Flight, which will take place on the day later. The experts of the Zero g Flight, instructors and physicians of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) explain in a briefing the day of your Zero G Flight, following on it, to examine you in a medical investigation, whether you can feel physically fit and let the weightlessness on the next day in good physical conditions.
Subsequently, the day ends with a dinner, which will take place at the Star City restaurant.
Mission Day 2:
The day begins with a breakfast in the Prophylaktorium. After that you will drive with the GCTC bus with the complete instructor team to the Chalakowsky-Airbase, where the Zero-G flight will have a take off in a few hours.
Before the flight, the physicians will check your fitness again, after that follows security advices. You will wear during the take off phase of the plane parachutes, and in a briefing, you will advice into this parachute. For your saftyness it is necessary, because inside the cargo bay, there are no seats.
After the briefing has find an end, you will sit down on the soil of the cargo bay. The flight will start, and you will have the experience of your life - weightlessness into 10 to 15 parabolas. During each parabola you will feel like the Cosmonauts and Astronauts absolutely free between 20 and 25 seconds. Instructors will show you, what all can happen during weightlessness and you will wonder about, what for things are possible during the Zero-G Flight.
After your successful Zero-G Flight, our bus will take you to Star City, where you will have lunch.
In the Afternoon you will visit the world famous Yuri A. Gagarin Museum, what is located in Star City with a special guide, who will explain you all the historic things, since the former Soviet Union has start the human exploration of Space (they were first!), and they will explain you the way from the past to the present, and into the future of space exploration.
At the evening you will have dinner in the Star City Restaurant.
Mission Day 3:
Breakfast in your hotel. Transport with the bus to the Vukovo airport, flight with continental flight from Moscow to Baikonur (Duration 2.5 hours, Economy class).
Arrival at the airport, welcome at the airport of Baikonur. Emmigration with help of your local guide and transport with the bus to the hotel "Baikonur", check in hotel.
Dinner in the hotel "Baikonur".
Mission Day 4:
Early in the morning (approx. 4.30 am) transport with the bus to the "Soyuz-Integration Hall".
Participation at the so called "Roll out" of the Soyuz-Roket with mounted Soyuz spacecraft.
You will transport with the bus nearby the railway-road to the launch-pad and you will have the chance to "meet the Rocket" at several places, where you can have a unique view to take some photos or make some videos.
On the launch pad you will see the preperations of the Soyuz rocket. Your special guide is a engineer and will explain all things and will answer you all questions.
After the launch preperations, sightseeing with your special guide around the launch-pad.
Transport with the bus to the hotel "Baikonur".
Ca. 2:00 pm lunch at the hotel "Baikonur"
At afternnoon sightseeing launch pads for Proton rockets, Buran- and Energia-launch-pads with special engineers from Energia
Sightseeing of the facilities of "Energia".
In the evening dinner at the hotel "Baikonur"
Mission Day 5:
Breakfast in the hotel "Baikonur"
Ca. 10:00 am: Participation on the international press-conference with the main- and backup-crew of Soyuz-TMA8.
Sightseeing "Cosmonaut walk of fame" and "Nehelyn-Monument".
Lunch in the Hotel "Baikonur".
In the afternoon sightseeing of the Gagarin- and Korolov-cottages with a special guide, visiting of the Baikonur space museum.
In the evening dinner in the hotel "Baikonur".
Mission Day 6:
Midnight: Participation at the "farewell of the cosmonauts". The cosmonauts are coming out of their hotel. People will say "good beye" in front of the hotel. You will transported with a bus to the Energia-Complex. There you can watch the pressure-test of the cosmonauts with their Sokol flight suits.
Transport to the launch-pad.
Reserved place on the VIP-stage (Distance to the launch-pad: approx. 2 kilometres).
Special guides will attain you during the lift off.
After sucessful liftoff, you will be transported to the hotel "Baikonur", checkout and transportation with the bus to the Baikonur airport.
Departure to Moscow (Flight duration 2.5 hours, economy class).
Pickup at the airport (Domodevedo or Vukovo), transportation to Star City, check in hotel.
Farewelldinner at Star City with complete group.
Mission Day 7:
Breakfast in the hotel.
Check out hotel and transportation to the Sheremetyevo II airport.
Departure to Germany at the afternoon.
Notice
Program schedule will be conformistly to the next planned LiftOff at Baykonur in 2007, March 8th. Day timeline will changed, program will be the same.