Incredible Adventures: Plans Aims - Preparing for Space - The Next Incredible Adventure

摘要

The Accidental Birth of a Space Tourism Company. In 1993, Kent Ertugrul, an American entrepreneur, was in Moscow, looking for computer programmers to work for his Florida-based voice mail company. While there, he happened to meet the neighbor of a Russian test pilot, who offered to arrange a flight for him in a MiG-29. Kent loved his adventure in a MiG so much that he obtained the rights to market the flights worldwide and returned home to Sarasota to found MIGS etc. An accidental meeting and an ad in the Wall Street Journal was all it took to launch the "fighter jet tourism" industry. Customers began lining up to place deposits on MiG flights, much like customers are lining up today to place deposits on suborbital flights.