Up for a Spacey Adventure? Try This

In perhaps the ultimate trial balloon, a new company says it will let tourists experience weightlessness and journey to the edge of space aboard Russian aircraft. You’ll need to travel light but bring lots of money.

For $5,500, Virginia-based Space Adventures says it will whisk you from Moscow to nearby Star City and let you experience a few minutes of weightlessness on flights aboard a modified IL-76 MDK jet aircraft, used to train cosmonauts. For $11,900, it will send you to Zhukovsky Air Base, about 25 miles from Moscow, and strap you into a MIG-25 combat jet, along with a test pilot, for a trip 70,000 feet up into the stratosphere. Space Adventures, a joint venture by Omega World Travel and the Quark Expeditions, said last week it received inquiries but no bookings since announcing the trips Sept. 24. Information: telephone (888) 857-7223.