Book Your Ticket to the Moon

Aug. 10, 2005 -- -- A company that gives private citizens the chance to go into outer space is expected to announce today a new plan to take private citizens to orbit the moon.

Space Adventures, the company that brokered millionaire businessman Dennis Tito's trip to the International Space Station four years ago, plans to launch the service by 2007.

"This is not something that everybody can do," said Eric Anderson, founder of Space Adventures. "But it's something that can show everyone else that it's possible."

The craft will not actually land on the moon, but orbit in close proximity. The Russians have never landed on the moon.

Tickets to travel on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the moon will cost $200 million for a solo trip, or $100 million per ticket for a two-person flight. Space Adventures has identified approximately 1,000 people with the financial capablity to afford the flight.

"It's actually relatively inexpensive when you think about it," Anderson said today on "Good Morning America." "Most people think that it takes billions of dollars to got to the moon."

Anderson said the price would come down in the future.

The mission will last for 8½ days, in a space comparable to a large SUV, that can fit two to three people. The spacecraft will first dock with the space station, then do a six-day roundtrip to the moon and back.