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In Space Tourism, only the Russian Soyuz rocket is currently available for use in Space Tourism. The Soyuz goes into regular orbit at 17 500 miles per hour at an altitude of 250 miles and docks with the International Space Station. Typical missions are for a little over a week. However, many companies are looking into a suborbital mission where the passengers are only weightless for about 3-6 minutes up to 2 orbits of about 90 minutes in duration each. Instead of a ground-based launch as used in the NASA space shuttles or the Soyuz rocket, the space craft will hang underneath the wing of a twin-feuselaged aircraft that will fly the spacecraft up to about 50 000 feet before detaching from the mother ship and firing its single hybrid engine and blasting into space. This is much more affordable than paying for a trip to space in a Russian Soyuz Spacecraft. There are huge pre-registration lists for up and coming space tourism spots as many famous people have already booked spots on the spacecrafts.