Russia to offer tourists spacewalks for $100m – with discount for first taker

Space company Energia will offer 'comfortable' flights for up to six people onboard the NEM-2 module

Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday.

"We are discussing the possibility of sending tourists on spacewalks," Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russian space company Energia, told Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.