(CNN) -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to secure a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, officials said Wednesday. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is paying $5 million to become a space tourist. Brin's seat will be on a future orbital space flight, Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures Ltd., said at a news conference. In a statement, Brin credits Space Adventures with helping "open the space frontier to private citizens." Space Adventures will also host the first private space flight to the international space station in 2011, spokeswoman Stacey Tearne said. Two seats will be available on that trip. The mission is part of a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA). Space Adventures launched the world's first privately funded space mission in 2001. ======================================================================> Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: +1 650-253-0000 Fax: +1 650-253-0001 ======================================================================> Mark Shuttleworth | here be dragons * When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci Contact Details The best way to reach me is through my office at Canonical UK Ltd, in London. Write to: Claire Newman claire.newman@canonical.com PO Box 61733 London SW1P 9LB UK We can’t respond to all invitations, proposals or requests. I don’t make personal investments, and generally ask HBD in South Africa to review any business proposals. Their mandate is South African investment only ======================================================================> Rick Tumlinson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Rick Tumlinson is the co-Founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and a prominent space activist. He has testified on space-related topics before the U.S. Congress six times since 1995.[1] In 2004, Space News magazine recently listed Tumlinson as one of the 100 most influential people in the space industry, stating: Part agitator, part operator, Tumlinson has spent the past two decades advocating human exploration and settlement of the solar system and has been a strong advocate of creating commercial opportunities at the Russian Mir space station and at the international space station.[2] Tumlinson has spent his life opening up the space frontier to all people, not just governments. Info@RickTumlinson.com ======================================================================> Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Career After graduating from Princeton, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. Later on Bezos also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co. Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage [5], his work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin. Bezos is known for his attention to business process details, and is also said to have a very distinctive honk-like laugh. [6] ======================================================================> ======================================================================> ======================================================================>